EXCLUSIVE: FilmNation is launching sales on a buzzy package for the TIFF market: dark heist comedy 4 Kids Walk Into A Bank.
Taken star and Oscar nominee Liam Neeson is in talks to lead the project alongside a collection of fast-ascending actors also including Never Rarely Sometimes Always breakout Talia Ryder, Noah Jupe (A Quiet Place), Whitney Peak (Gossip Girl), Jack Dylan Grazer (It), and newcomer Deacon Phillippe, son of Reese Witherspoon and Ryan Phillippe.
Neeson will play ex-bank robber Danny whose teenage granddaughter Paige (Ryder) means the world to him. So when she overhears that his former gang is pulling him back in for one more score to pay a debt, she comes up with the only logical solution: she enlists her three ride-or-die best friends to rob the bank the day before so he doesn’t have to.
Set to be directed by Frankie Shaw (SMILF), and based on the graphic novel by Matthew Rosenberg and Tyler Boss, the film was adapted by Matt Robinson with revisions by Frankie Shaw.
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It was developed and co-financed by Erik Feig’s Picturestart, who will also produce with Seth Rogen’s Point Grey Pictures and Black Mask Studios.
FilmNation is launching international sales on the film ahead of next week’s Toronto International Film Festival and market. Jessica Switch is overseeing for Picturestart and Matt Pizzolo is overseeing for Black Mask Studios.
This is still coming together and talent deals have yet to be completed so there’s always room for movement but at the moment buyers have another nice project to consider for the TIFF market.
Neeson is represented by CAA and Artists Rights Group; Ryder is repped by UTA, Untitled Entertainment, and McKuin Frankel Whitehead. Jupe is repped by WME and Brillstein Entertainment Partners; Peak is with CAA, Play Management, and Jackoway, Austen, Tyerman. Grazer is repp UTA, Tanguay Talent and Entertainment and Jackoway, Austen, Tyerman.
Phillippe is represented by CAA and LBI Entertainment. Shaw is represented by WME, and Entertainment 360. Robinson is with CAA, 3Arts Entertainment and Ziffren Brittenham. Boss & Rosenberg are repped by Matt Sugarman at Weintraub Tobin.
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