EXCLUSIVE: Neon is gearing as much as start manufacturing in Could on Dangerous Lieutenant: Tokyo, with Takashi Miike (Audition, 13 Assassins) set to direct. The thriller will star Shun Oguri (Godzilla v. Kong, No Longer Human), Lily James (Pam and Tommy, Yesterday), and WWE star Liv Morgan (Gionna Daddio).
The movie will likely be a U.S.-Japan co-production, produced by Jeremy Thomas for Recorded Image Firm, Sam Pressman for Pressman Movie, Naoaki Kitajima for Nippon TV and Misako Saka for OLM. Government producers embody Tom Quinn, Yuzo Kuwahara, Tetsu Fujimura, Paula Paizes, Alainée Kent, Peter Watson, Ivan Kelava, Max Loeb and Mike Apgar. The deal was negotiated by Neon’s Sarah Colvin, VP of Acquisitions, and Paula Paizes from Pressman Movie and Recorded Image Firm’s Ivan Kelava on behalf of the filmmakers.
Neon will launch the movie theatrically in North America and signify the worldwide gross sales rights in Cannes this month.
Written by Daisuke Tengan (Audition, 13 Assassins) and based mostly on the IP first produced by Edward R. Pressman, Dangerous Lieutenant: Tokyo will comply with the Dangerous Lieutenant (Oguri), a corrupt gambler within the Metropolitan Police Drive, who finds himself thrown right into a tangled case after an enigmatic FBI agent (James) arrives in Tokyo to analyze the disappearance of a politician’s daughter (Morgan). In the meantime, a deviant killer working within the yakuza underworld appears to be shadowing their strikes.
“A staff of extremely gifted actors and crew has gathered in Tokyo. Now. I’m about to throw a fastball straight down the center of your strike zone – no methods, no gimmicks. I’m assured we’re about to interrupt by each restrict, to create unforgettable leisure. Prepare for the trip with us,” shared Miike excitedly.
“We’re all delighted to reinterpret this iconic IP with a grasp filmmaker like Takashi Miike,” stated producer Jeremy Thomas of Recorded Image Firm. “We’ve produced 10 movies in Japan, most lately Grand Maison Paris, which has grossed over $28M domestically, and it’s a fertile place to create and distribute movies. I really feel the time is true for this irreverent hybrid.”
Neon is coming in sizzling following a profitable award season with Sean Baker’s Anora starring Mikey Madison, Yura Borisov, Karren Karagulian, Vache Tovmasyan, Darya Ekamasova, and Aleksei Serebryakov. The movie gained 5 Oscars, together with Greatest Image, Greatest Director for Baker, and Greatest Actress for Madison.
Extra Neon titles headed to the French movie pageant embody Joachim Trier’s Sentimental Worth, Julia Ducournau’s Alpha, Raoul Peck’s Orwell, and Michael Angelo Covino’s Splitsville.
“Director Miike brings a fearless new imaginative and prescient to the Dangerous Lieutenant, a personality outlined by the auteur. Simply as maestros Ferrara and Herzog delivered movies as radically completely different as their very own voices, Miike’s adaptation is unrelentingly wild and distinctive,” stated Sam Pressman, CEO of Pressman Movie, “My father Edward R. Pressman, all the time believed this story of corruption, each of police and the human soul, has a worldwide resonance. To comprehend this subsequent evolution now in Tokyo with Director Miike, NEON and my father’s lifelong good friend Jeremy Thomas — all true believers within the energy of unbiased cinema — is each an honor and a dream come true.”
Takashi Miike has directed over 100 function movies and constructed a filmography that has gained an ever-expanding cult fanbase within the West. His movies embody his worldwide movie pageant breakouts Audition, the yakuza trilogy Useless Or Alive, and thriller Ichi The Killer, in addition to different titles together with Sukiyaki Western Django, Customer Q, 13 Assassins, and his one centesimal movie, Blade of the Immortal. He’s a favoured filmmaker at Cannes, with movies comparable to Hara-Kiri: Demise of a Samurai and Defend of Straw having been nominated for the Palme d’Or. He’s represented by CAA.
Oguri is one in all Japan’s best-regarded actors, greatest identified for his roles in Boys Over Flowers and Weathering With You, and made his Hollywood debut in Adam Wingard’s Godzilla vs Kong. He beforehand collaborated with Miike on Crows Zero and its sequel Terra Formars, in addition to Sukiyaki Western Django. Oguri will subsequent be seen within the sequence Romantics Nameless and Human Vapor for Netflix. Oguri is represented by Tristone Leisure Inc.
James first gained recognition for taking part in Woman Rose within the British drama sequence Downton Abbey. She adopted with starring roles in movies like Child Driver, Mamma Mia! Right here We Go Once more, and Cinderella. She earned vital acclaim and a BAFTA nomination for her transformation into Pamela Anderson within the hit Hulu sequence Pam & Tommy. She is repped by Tavistock Wooden Administration, Impartial Expertise Group, and UTA.
WWE star Liv Morgan is coming off making a particular look at WrestleMania 41 in Las Vegas. In 2022, she ascended to the corporate’s higher echelon because the Girls’s World Champion. Morgan has developed into one in all WWE’s biggest antagonists and has been featured in main matches on the corporate’s milestone occasions, together with WrestleMania and SummerSlam. She is repped by Paradigm.
