Chris Pratt signs on for a new action film at Amazon, Millie Bobby Brown set for new Russo Brothers Netflix film, and Ted Danson reunites with Mike Schur for a comedy series
Mercy (Amazon MGM Studios)
Chris Pratt (the Guardians of the Galaxy and Jurassic World franchises) has brought his new project to Amazon after the previous successes of The Tomorrow War film and The Terminal List series for the streaming service. Titled Mercy, this will be the first theatrically distributed movie for the newly created Amazon MGM Studios. Written by Marco van Belle (Arthur & Merlin), Mercy is set in the near future when capital crime has increased. The film follows a detective who is accused of a violent crime and forced to prove his innocence. Rebecca Ferguson (the Mission: Impossible and Dune series) is also set to co-star, with Timur Bekmambetov (Wanted) slated to direct. Filming begins on April 15 in Los Angeles.
The Electric State (Netflix)
Joe and Anthony Russo, who previously directed the successful Avengers: Infinity War and Avengers: Endgame films, are set to produce their new project at Netflix with star Millie Bobby Brown (Stranger Things). Set in an alternative 1997, a runaway teenager and her yellow toy robot travel through a strange USA, where the ruins of gigantic battle drones litter the countryside heaped together with the discarded trash of a high-tech consumerist society in decline. The film will be written by Avengers scribes Christopher Markus and Stephen McFeely, and filming will begin this April in Atlanta, Brazil and Moab, Utah.
A Classic Spy (Netflix)
Mike Schur, executive producer for Parks & Recreation and Brooklyn Nine-Nine, will oversee a new limited comedy series for Netflix that reunited him with his Good Place star Ted Danson. The series will follow Charles, a senior citizen is hired to go undercover at a nursing home in San Francisco to root out alleged criminal activity. Other actors will include Stephanie Beatriz (Encanto), Stephen McKinley Henderson (Lady Bird) and John Getz (Zodiac). Filming is set to begin at the end of March around Los Angeles.
