Rupert Wyatt To Direct Heist Thriller ‘Boxman’ At Lionsgate

Justin Kroll

9 August 2024 at 3:00 pm·1-min read

EXCLUSIVE: Lionsgate is in negotiations with Rupert Wyatt to direct the Black List screenplay Boxman from screenwriter Adam Yorke.

The thriller takes place after a botched bank heist leaves 19 people locked inside a state-of-the-art vault, and the FBI recruits the world’s foremost box man from federal prison so he can break them out before they suffocate inside.

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Boxman will be produced by 42’s Ben Pugh & Josh Varney and Range Media Partners’ Brian Kavanaugh-Jones and Fred Berger. Casey Durant and AJ Bourscheid will executive produce for Range.

Meredith Wieck and Jon Humphrey are overseeing for Lionsgate. Lionsgate’s Bonnie Stylides is negotiating the deal.

Wyatt’s film credits include The Escapist and Rise of the Planet of the Apes. He most recently served as executive producer of the Apple TV+ series Mosquito Coast. He is represented by UTA and 42.

Yorke is represented by The Characters Talent Agency, Heroes and Villains Entertainment, and Yorn, Levine, Barnes, Krintzman, Rubenstein, Kohner, Endlich, Goodell & Gellman.

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