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EXCLUSIVE: Warner Bros won a wild spec auction, and will pay north of $1 million against low seven-figures for the Tyler Marceca script Stay Frosty. Idris Elba is attached to star and Sam Hargrave (Extraction) to direct. Dark Horse Entertainment’s Mike Richardson and Keith Goldberg will produce with Elba and Hargrave.
After miraculously surviving a bullet to the head, a man has to figure out who wants him dead and why. He needs to stop the assassin while still making it back home in time to spend Christmas with his son. It gives Elba a franchise play in a vehicle that is a big of a John Wick-type character in a throwback to ’80s high action Christmas movies that include Die Hard and Lethal Weapon. WB’s Peter Dodd was integral in bringing this one in.
Elba is shooting the Western The Harder They Fall, and has wrapped the George Miller-directed Three Thousand Years of Longing opposite Tilda Swinton. He will next be seen starring in the James Gunn-directed The Suicide Squad for Warner Bros.
Elba is repped by WME, M88 and the UK-based The Artists Partnership; Hargrave is WME and Goodman Genow;
Warner Bros Wins ‘Stay Frosty’; Idris Elba & ‘Extraction’ Helmer Sam Hargrave Team For Tyler Marceca Spec
Warner Bros wins auction for 'Stay Frosty,' an action vehicle for Idris Elba and 'Extraction' director Sam Hargrave.
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