Chris Evans is set to star opposite Dwayne Johnson in the holiday event film Red One for Amazon Studios.
Jake Kasdan will direct the film and also produce via his production company, The Detective Agency, alongside Melvin Mar and co-producer Sky Salem Robinson. The film will reunite Kasdan, Dwayne Johnson and Seven Bucks Productions after their collaboration on Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle and Jumanji: The Next Level, which have earned a combined $1.7 billion worldwide.
Plot details on Red One were not available, but the movie, with a script penned by Chris Morgan, will be based on an original story from Hiram Garcia, president of production at Seven Bucks Productions, after a competitive bidding process for the property.
The film is billed as an action-adventure comedy that imagines a new universe for the holiday genre. Evans will next be seen in the Russo brothers’ The Gray Man for Netflix and is voicing the role of Buzz Lightyear in Lightyear for Pixar.
Evans is also developing an untitled Gene Kelly project, which he will star in and produce and is set to star in the upcoming Apple feature Ghosted. Hiram Garcia, Dany Garcia, Johnson and Morgan will share producer credits.
Evans is represented by 3arts, CAA, Narrative. Johnson, Dany Garcia, Hiram Garcia, Seven Bucks Productions are represented by WME. Mar is represented by WME. Kasdan is represented by WME and Morgan is represented by ICM.
Source: Hollywood
