The Unhealthy Lieutenant 3 forged is official. Per Deadline, Takashi Miike will direct Unhealthy Lieutenant: Tokyo and have Lily James in a starring function. Neon is the studio, and manufacturing is seeking to begin this month.
Who’s within the Unhealthy Lieutenant: Tokyo forged?
James (Pam & Tommy) headlines the forged, which additionally contains Shun Oguri (Godzilla v. Kong) and former WWE Ladies’s Champion Liv Morgan (actual title Gionna Daddio).
The official synopsis reads, “Unhealthy Lieutenant: Tokyo will comply with the Unhealthy Lieutenant (Oguri), a corrupt gambler within the Metropolitan Police Pressure, who finds himself thrown right into a tangled case after an enigmatic FBI agent (James) arrives in Tokyo to analyze the disappearance of a politician’s daughter (Morgan). In the meantime, a deviant killer working within the yakuza underworld appears to be shadowing their strikes.”
Miike will direct from a screenplay by Daisuke Tengan. The duo beforehand collaborated on Audition and 13 Assassins.
Neon will deal with North American distribution and symbolize worldwide gross sales at Cannes later this month.
Unhealthy Lieutenant: Tokyo is a co-production between the U.S. and Japan. Jeremy Thomas, Sam Pressman, Naoaki Kitajima, and Misako Saka are producing. Govt producers embody Tom Quinn, Yuzo Kuwahara, Tetsu Fujimura, Paula Paizes, Alainée Kent, Peter Watson, Ivan Kelava, Max Loeb, and Mike Apgar.
“Director Miike brings a fearless new imaginative and prescient to the Unhealthy Lieutenant, a personality outlined by the auteur. Simply as maestros Ferrara and Herzog delivered movies as radically totally different as their very own voices, Miike’s adaptation is unrelentingly wild and distinctive,” mentioned Sam Pressman, CEO of Pressman Movie. “To appreciate this subsequent evolution now in Tokyo with Director Miike, Neon, and my father’s lifelong pal Jeremy Thomas — all true believers within the energy of unbiased cinema — is each an honor and a dream come true.”
Unhealthy Lieutenant: Tokyo relies on the IP first produced by Edward R. Pressman. Abel Ferrara directed 1992’s Bad Lieutenant, with Harvey Keitel within the titular function. In 2009, Werner Herzog helmed Unhealthy Lieutenant: Port of Name New Orleans starring Nicolas Cage.
(Supply: Deadline)
