Taylor Swift’s ‘Eras Tour’ film director is ready to direct Warner Bros.‘ remake of ‘The Bodyguard’.
Sam Wrench will helm a brand new model of the 1992 film – which starred Whitney Houston as singer Rachel Marron and Kevin Costner as her bodyguard and love curiosity Frank Farmer.
Jonathan Abrams, who wrote Clint Eastwood’s ‘Juror #2’ is writing the script. Matthew Lopez wrote a earlier model of the screenplay.
Warner Bros. Movie Group co-chairpersons and CEOs Mike De Luca and Pam Abdy confirmed the director information in an interview with Deadline.
The Bodyguard tells the story of a former Secret Service agent who’s employed to guard a star from her stalker.
It grew to become 1992’s second-highest-grossing film on the worldwide field workplace and went on to obtain two Oscar nominations.
No casting bulletins have been made for the remake, which has been in varied levels of improvement since 2011.
In the meantime, De Luca and Abdy admitted that making motion pictures has turn into tougher lately.
Abdy advised Deadline: “I don’t assume the strain to selecting motion pictures and deciding what motion pictures to make and the movie-making course of has dramatically modified over the a long time that we’ve been doing it. It’s nonetheless the identical thought of selecting proper. Typically you’re going to select winners, generally you’re not. Typically you’re going to select motion pictures which can be critically applauded after which don’t discover an viewers. I feel what’s harder on this period is about how do you get audiences to come back out of the home and it’s the chemistry and alchemy of all of the issues coming collectively on the identical time.
“Whether or not that’s the idea of the film, the expertise that’s directing the movie, the relationship of the movie, what’s happening on the planet round it. I feel that’s what has turn into a little bit tougher. It lifts the strain of all of it, however I feel that makes the job nonetheless thrilling.”