I’m so grateful to Mike, John, Erik and the whole Picturestart team for trusting me to adapt it. Cosby’s book is a high octane read with a rare combination of adrenaline and emotion that will make an incredible movie. Jackson said the book is one of the best crime/thriller novels I’ve read in a long time,” and his team was thrilled to bring the story to life. we have the opportunity to develop the main character Bug into every bit that archetypical movie star - one with a fast car and an emotionally complex backstory - that speeds into the zeitgeist as if he has always been there,” said Feig.
We’ve wanted to work with Virgil for years and know that with him and the team at Get Lifted Film Co. “We instantly just saw ‘Blacktop Wasteland’ as a new, but classic, movie from the first moment Royce mentioned it. When a slick-talking former associate comes along with a diamond heist, he has no choice but to take the job - until he finds himself double-crossed, betrayed and hunted. As Bug tries to go legit, the pangs of the straight-and-narrow weigh on him - a rival auto business lures his customers away, his daughter eyes a fancy college, his wife eager to upgrade from their mobile home. “Blacktop” follows Beauregard “Bug” Montage, a hardworking family man in the American South, who happens to be a most skilled driver for people up to no good. Jessica Switch and Royce Reeves-Darby are overseeing for Picturestart, with MacKenzie Marlowe for Get Lifted Film Co., and Ty Stiklorius serving as executive producer.
who was nominated for an Academy Award for the Netflix original film, to adapt the heist drama. The former Lionsgate film honcho and the EGOT-chasing Legend have tapped “Mudbound” co-screenwriter Virgil Williams. Cosby novel “Blacktop Wasteland” to the big screen. are teaming to bring the critically acclaimed S.A. Erik Feig’s Picturestart and Mike Jackson and John Legend’s production company Get Lifted Film Co.
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