Dwayne Manley To Star In Ciudad, First Russo Brothers and sisters Feature Since 2006

EXCLUSIVE: Dwayne Manley has signed onto star in Ciudad, a effective action thriller being directed by Joe and Anthony Russo. The pic continues to be produced by Eric Gitter and Peter Schwerin of Closed on Mondays Entertainment (Scott Pilgrim Versus. The Earth), additionally to Emmett/Furla Films partners Randall Emmett & George Furla. Emmett/Furla Films will finance the film. Picture Entertainments Stepan Martirosyan and Remington Chase, who've a film fund with Emmett/Furla Films, will executive produce. The Russo Brothers and sisters will direct in the script put together by Joe Russo. Ciudad will depend on the arrival Oni Press graphic novel the Russo Brothers and sisters co-written with Ande Parks. Occur most likely probably the most dangerous and corrupt urban centers in the world, the thriller will star Manley just like a subterranean community mercenary hired having a Brazilian drug master in order to save his kidnapped daughter. Since joining Fast Five, Manley remains burning. He’s finish up being the face area for just two other pre-existing franchises Journey 2: The Mysterious Island, which has made $270 million worldwide, and G.I. Joe: Retaliation, which opens inside the summer season. Manley may also be noisy . predicts play in the title role in MGM’s Hercules: The Thracian Wars, which Brett Ratner will direct. Ciudad is Manley’s second recent collaboration with Emmett/Furla Films while he’s also installed on star inside the crime thriller Empire Condition, which Dito Montiel is pointing. For your Russos — who had been concentrating on the tv series Community, Happy Being, and Arrested Development–Ciudad may be the first feature since 2006′s You, Me And Dupree. Ciudad may be the first foray into hard-core action. “Exploring genre is surely a driving motivation for people as filmmakers,” the Russos mentioned in the statement. “This movie might be the culmination of the extremely very long time ambition to produce our sensibilities to have an action thriller.” Closed on Mondays Entertainment’s Joe Nozemack will executive produce and Steven V. Scavelli and Lisa Gitter will co-produce. David Guillod of Intellectual Artists Management may even executive produce. Manley as well as the Russo Brothers and sisters are repped by WME and three Arts, as they are Closed On Mondays and Oni Press.