UPDATE: Here’s Puck’s Matt Belloni with a few more details about the Coogler/Jordan Vampire flick:
If you missed it, the Black Panther and Creed filmmaker has been shopping a project with Michael B. Jordan, his frequent collaborator. It’s a period genre film, supposedly with vampires, or the undead, or something, and I’m told Jordan will play twins—similar to what Tom Hardy did in that 2015 movie Legend. With the help of Coogler’s and Jordan’s publicists, the trades hyped this as one of those “hot packages” that sparked a “bidding frenzy.” On Wednesday, Warner Bros. landed the project for a little over $75 million.
EARLIER: Warner Bros. has landed the rights to Ryan Coogler’s next film starring Michael B. Jordan. Described as a period thriller centering on vampires, and having a 1930s Jim Crow South setting, with some “anime influences,” the goal is to start shooting this one in April.
“Hope,” Na’s first film in ten years — his last one being the exemplary “The Wailing” —is a gloriously messy, blood-soaked sci-fi epic that may become a cult classic despite—or because of—its polarizing nature.