Netflix is putting money behind a new remake of Point Blank, based on the lean 2010 French production from Fred Cavaye. The new movie is being directed by Mayhem’s Joe Lynch, working from a script by Adam G Simon. Joe Carnahan is producing the movie, that’s said to have a $12m budget.
Anthony Mackie and Frank Grillo have signed up for the lead roles in the movie – or at least are about to – and the film is set to shoot later this summer.
In the film, Mackie is set to play a nurse who helps a murder suspect escape from hospital (with his pregnant wife kidnapped, to help persuade him). An exchange is thus needed, and Mackie needs to keep said wounded man alive long enough for it to happen. Nothing could possibly go wrong.
We’d imagine that Netflix will line this up for our screens in 2019. As we hear more on the movie, we’ll let you know…