EXCLUSIVE: Danny Ramirez, the fast-rising star soon to be seen in Captain America: Brave New World, will make his feature directorial debut with Baton, a sports drama that he’ll star in and also wrote.
Baton follows a soccer player, relentlessly pursuing his dream of playing professionally, who threatens his relationship with his sister after he is kicked off the team and exiled back to Miami. As they battle over their mother’s legacy, he will stop at nothing to get another chance at soccer glory, even if it means losing the only family he has left.
Victoria Alonso, former President of Physical and Post-Production, Visual Effects, and Animation at Marvel Studios, will produce in her first outing since departing the studio, in association with soccer superstar David Beckham‘s Studio 99. Also producing are Ramirez and Tom Culliver for Pinstripes and Sergio Lira for Luz Films. CAA Media Finance reps rights to the film.
One of the more in-demand actors in town at the moment, Ramirez is known for his role of Joaquin Torres aka Falcon in The Falcon and the Winter Soldier, which he reprises in the aforementioned Brave New World, out February 14. He played Lt. Mickey ‘Fanboy’ Garcia in Top Gun: Maverick and has also appeared in the films Winner, No Exit, and Assassination Nation. Also upcoming for the actor is the highly anticipated second season of The Last of Us at HBO.
With Marvel from the beginnings of the MCU through last year, Alonso recently produced the Golden Globe winner Argentina 1985 and is still being credited as EP on assorted Marvel projects. She’s a three time Emmy nominee, having been recognized for her work on WandaVision, What If… ? and X-Men ’97.
Last year sitting down as the subject of Netflix docuseries Beckham, which garnered five Emmy nominations, Beckham previously exec produced both that project and sports doc Ronnie O’Sullivan: The Edge of Everything.
Ramirez is represented by CAA, Anonymous Content, and Hansen, Jacobson, Teller; Beckham by DB Ventures, WME, and 19 Entertainment.
