Regina Hall to Star in Sequel – The Hollywood Reporter
Regina Corridor is ready to star in a sequel of Midnight Run, with authentic star Robert De Niro connected to supply.
Midnight Run got here out in 1988 and starred De Niro as a bounty hunter who’s tasked with monitoring down a former mob accountant, performed by the late Charles Grodin. The buddy comedy sees the duo touring cross-country attempting to evade each the FBI and the mob.
Brooklyn 9-9‘s Aeysha Carr is penning the film, which is ready up at Common. Story particulars on the sequel are being saved beneath wraps.
Common had been attempting to make a sequel or remake of the influential comedy on and off for the reason that Nineteen Nineties. Within the early 2010s, Timothy Dowling was penning a script with the thought of getting De Niro’s character, Jack Walsh, paired with a youthful comedic foil.
De Niro and Jane Rosenthal will produce for Tribeca, with Berry Welsh govt producing. Jesse Collins is producing by way of Jesse Collins Leisure, together with Corridor beneath her RH Unfavourable label. Common Photos’ Sara Scott will oversee on behalf of the studio.
Corridor, who’s represented by ICM Companions and The Initiative Group, was most just lately seen within the Hulu sequence 9 Good Strangers. She’s at present in manufacturing on the comedy Honk for Jesus, Save Your Soul, starring reverse Sterling Okay. Brown, and shall be seen within the upcoming Kevin Hart and Mark Wahlberg Netflix comedy Me Time.
Collins is represented by CAA and Morris Yorn. Carr is repped by WME and three Arts Leisure.