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April 07 2023

Press: Richard Madden to play twins in new thriller

Film will also star Joseph Gordon-Levitt and Shailene Woodley.

Digital Spy: Richard Madden has found a duel role in his next major project — twins in Amazon Studios’ upcoming movie Killer Heat.

Killer Heat comes from filmmaker Philippe Lacôte, who will direct the movie, which is based on the 2021 Jo Nesbø short story The Jealousy Man. The story follows twin brothers who get caught up in a violent love triangle on a Greek island.

Meanwhile, a detective – The Jealousy Man –, who will be played by Joseph Gordon-Levitt, is called in to investigate the case. Shailene Woodley will also costar. The script is written by House of Gucci writer Roberto Bentivegna and Bridge of Spies scribe Matt Charman.

Madden, who will next be seen opposite Priyanka Chopra in Citadel, is best known for his breakout role in Game of Thrones and his starring role in Marvel’s Eternals.

That Marvel movie featured Harry Styles as Thanos’ brother Eros alongside Patton Oswalt’s Pip. There has been no official word on an Eternals 2 just yet, although last August, Oswalt stated that a second movie is happening and that Chloé Zhao is returning to direct it.

“They have announced there’s going to be an Eternals sequel. Chloé Zhao is going to direct it,” Oswalt said. “So, hopefully, there will be more adventures of Starfox and Pip.”

Marvel producer Nate Moore later teased fans that Styles would be returning to the MCU, too, explaining that they didn’t just cast Styles for a tag at the end of the movie.

“We didn’t cast Harry for a tag. [There’s] more stories to be told with that character. He has an interesting connection with Thanos; they’re half-brothers and share the same father,” Moore said.

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April 07 2023

Press: Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Shailene Woodley, Richard Madden to Star in ‘Killer Heat’ Drama

TheHollywoodReporter: Philippe Lacôte is directing the love-triangle film for Amazon Studios, with Brad Weston producing.

Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Shailene Woodley and Richard Madden are set to star in Killer Heat, a love triangle thriller from director Philippe Lacôte for Amazon Studios and Makeready.

The film is based on Norwegian crime writer Jo Nesbo’s short story The Jealousy Man, with the screen adaptation to follow twin brothers caught in a violent love triangle on a remote Greek island. A damaged local detective with a nose for jealousy is called in to investigate a murder.

Production on Killer Heat is set to start in May in Crete.

Gordon-Levitt recently appeared in Rian Johnson’s Poker Face and will next be seen in Beverly Hills Cop: Axel Foley and John Carney’s Flora and Son. Woodley has starred in The Descendants, The Fault in Our Stars, The Spectacular Now and most recently in the series Big Little Lies.

Madden is best known for playing Robb Stark in Game of Thrones, and will next appear opposite Priyanka Chopra Jonas in Prime Video’s Citadel. Director Lacôte helmed Night of the Kings, which debuted at the Venice Film Festival and was acquired by Neon.

Roberto Bentivegna (House of Gucci) penned the script for Killer Heat, with revisions by screenwriter Matt Charman. Makeready’s Brad Weston is producing the film, with Nesbo, Niclas Salomonsson, Gordon-Levitt, Tom Karnowski and Collin Creighton executive producing, while Oscar Montemayor will associate produce.

Gordon-Levitt is represented by WME. Woodley is represented by Hyperion and Range Media Partners. Madden is represented by CAA and Anonymous Content, while Lacôte is represented by CAA.

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May 07 2021

Press: Amazon Lines Up TV Adaptation Of Sci-Fi Podcast ‘From Now’ With Richard Madden & Brian Cox Aboard As Exec Producers

This is amazing!!

DEADLINE- EXCLUSIVE: Amazon Studios has won rights to adapt QCode sci-fi podcast series, From Now, as a TV series. Golden Globe winners Richard Madden (Game Of Thrones) and Brian Cox (Succession) will serve as executive producers.

The podcast series, which stars Cox and Madden, debuted in late December 2020 and peaked at number two overall in the Apple Podcast charts.

Madden and Cox play identical twin brothers separated by time. The story chronicles the aftermath of their historic reunion when astronaut Edward Fitz’s (Madden) spacecraft suddenly reappears in Earth’s orbit after having gone missing 35 years earlier — and Edward emerges looking the exact same age as when he left.

The podcast was created by Rhys Wakefield, who starred in season three of HBO’s True Detective and William Day Frank, who produced the 2019 comedy thriller Berserk, directed by Wakefield. The duo will adapt the series for TV.

Madden, Cox, Wakefield, and Frank will serve as executive producers. Rob Herting and Dave Henning will executive-produce on behalf of QCode. Brian Kavanaugh-Jones, Fred Berger, Justin Levy will executive produce under their Automatik banner.

Madden, who is currently shooting the Russo brothers’ global thriller series Citadel for Amazon, will next be seen in Chloe Zhao’s film The Eternals, which is set for a Nov 2021 release from Disney. Cox is currently shooting season three of HBO hit Succession and writing his autobiography, which will be published in October in the UK and in 2022 in the U.S.

Madden is represented by WME, Anonymous Content, and Sloane, Offer, Weber & Dern. Cox is repped by Paradigm, Conway Van Gelder Grant, and Insight Entertainment. Wakefield is represented by ICM Partners, Grandview, and Sloane, Offer, Weber & Dern. Frank’s reps are Management 360 and Hansen, Jacobson, Teller, Hoberman, Newman, Warren, Richman, Rush, Kaller & Gellman.

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January 15 2020

Press: Priyanka Chopra Jonas & Richard Madden To Star In ‘Citadel’, Amazon’s Russo Brothers International Event Series

DEADLINE – EXCLUSIVE: Priyanka Chopra Jonas (Quantico) and Richard Madden (Bodyguard) are set to headline Citadel, Anthony and Joe Russo’s upcoming global thriller multi-series for Amazon Studios. The company is expected to announce the high-profile castings during its TCA executive session. Amazon also is announcing today that a local language production of the franchise will originate from Mexico, in addition to the previously announced versions in Italy and India. Madden and Chopra, who both have global profiles, will star in the U.S. “mothership” edition of the series.

Former ABC Studios president Patrick Moran has been working on Citadel since closing an overall deal at Amazon in October. As head of ABC Studios, he cast Indian movie star Chopra in her first major American television role as the lead of the studio’s ABC drama Quantico.

The epic Citadel franchise, a co-production with Midnight Radio, is described as action-packed spy series with a compelling emotional center. Josh Appelbaum, André Nemec, Jeff Pinkner, and Scott Rosenberg of Midnight Radio serve as writers and executive producers. Moran, Mike Larocca, and Joe and Anthony Russo serve as executive producers. The Italian series will be co-produced with Amazon Studios and Cattleya (Gomorrah), part of ITV Studios, and the Indian series will be developed by Raj Nidimoru and Krishna D.K. (The Family Man) and produced with Amazon Studios.

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Former Quantico star Chopra Jonas recently starred in and co-produced The Sky is Pink, an independent foreign language film that premiered as an official selection at the Toronto International Film Festival. She’ll star in the upcoming Netflix films We Can Be Heroes by Robert Rodriguez, and an adaptation of the Man Booker Prize winning novel The White Tiger, which she is also Executive Producing. Additionally, Chopra Jonas is developing an “untitled” Indian wedding comedy with Mindy Kaling and Dan Goor for Universal, which she will co-produce and star in.

Scottish actor Madden is best known for his award winning portrayal of David Budd in Jed Mecurio’s Bodyguard for the BBC. He is currently in production on Chloe Zaho’s The Eternals in which he will portray Ikaris opposite Angelina Jolie. He was most recently seen in Sam Mendes’s critically-acclaimed feature 1917, which most recently won the Golden Globe for Best Motion Picture – Drama.

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July 22 2019

Press: Marvel introduces The Eternals at Comic-Con

EW – The Marvel Cinematic Universe just got a little bit bigger.

During Marvel’s presentation at San Diego Comic-Con on Saturday, Marvel Studios president Kevin Feige teased new details of one of the studio’s upcoming films: The Eternals. The Rider’s Chloe Zhao is directing the film, which will star Angelina Jolie (Thena), Richard Madden (Icarus), Kumail Nanjiani (Kingo), Lauren Ridloff (Makkari), Brian Tyree Henry (Phastos), Salma Hayek (Ajak), Lia McHugh (Sprite), and Don Lee (Gilgamesh).

“It’s about this group of incredible immortals but through their journey we really get to explore what it means to be human and humanity on our time on this planet,” Zhao said.

“The Eternals are a race of immortal aliens sent to Earth by the Celestials to protect humankind from the Deviants,” added Madden. Ridloff also signed that she is playing the first deaf character in the MCU.

Hayek, speaking about being the leader of the group, told the crowd, “I take my inspiration from our leader, Chloe, who’s also a strong woman and it takes a strong woman to do a movie like this because it’s so big and amazing and I’m so excited to be a part of it. The way she approaches leadership as a woman, as a strong woman, is that she sees them as a family. So there’s a lot of mother instincts in this Eternal, who is not supposed to have kids. So this is very exciting, and I feel very honored to be a part of a movie that is going to allow people who never felt represented in superheroes, or in this case Eternals, represented because I am proud to have a diverse family.”

Said Jolie, “I’m so excited to be here. I’m going to work 10 times harder because I think what it means to be a part of the MCU, what it means to be an Eternal, to be a part of this family, I know what we all need to do. We have all read the script. We have all know what the task ahead is and we are all going to be working very very hard. I’m training. I am thrilled. Thank you so much.”

The film, which is shooting in London, is set for release on Nov. 6, 2020.

The Eternals are some of Marvel Comics’ most powerful and mysterious figures. They’re the brainchild of Marvel legend Jack Kirby, who left the publisher in the ’70s to move to DC Comics before returning a few years later. Upon his return to Marvel, Kirby created The Eternals, which followed a group of genetically-engineered gorgeous super-humans blessed with long life. As Kirby wrote it, the Eternals were created by the Celestials, a group of all-powerful giant space gods who designed the Eternals to help defend humanity. (Remember Kurt Russell’s all-powerful Ego from Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2? He’s a Celestial.)

Unfortunately, the Celestials also created an evil race known as the Deviants, and the Eternals and the Deviants have clashed ever since.

Up until now, the MCU has largely taken place in the 20th and 21st centuries, but Feige has previously said since The Eternals focuses on a group of ancient, everlasting beings, the film will span eons in their lives.