Deadline reports that Denzel Washington - recently coming off of his latest action film,
Safe House - is in early discussions to join the cast of
2 Guns, a film that’s based on a Steven Grant-written graphic novel published by Boom! Studios. Mark Wahlberg will be starring in the action film, while Baltasar Kormakur will direct the film. The script was written by Blake Masters, and Marc Platt is producing along with Boom!’s Andrew Cosby and Ross Richie. This will mark Kormakur's second film with Wahlberg; the two recently worked on the action thriller
Contrabrand, in theaters now.
Deadline also says that the financing of the movie is still coming together, but
"my international colleague Nancy Tartaglione is covering Berlin this week and is already hearing that the film will be a hot sales title there. Universal will distribute and market in the U.S. and a deal is close with a co-financier."
Below is a plot summary for the
2 Guns graphic novel:
A pulp story about cops and thieves and the men that are something in between. Trench has targeted a local bank to rob, and asked Steadman in on the job. Trench figures it's a great way to score -- considering it's a cover for mob money. They'll be thieves ripping off thieves. But what Steadman doesn't know is that Trench is a DEA agent. And what Trench doesn't know is that Steadman's a Naval Intelligence officer. They're both cops! And neither one knows that they're not robbing the mob, they've been set up to steal $50 million from the CIA! A light-hearted crime romp in the vein of Ocean's Thirteen and The Italian Job from comics legend, Steven Grant!
The film currently has no release date.
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