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EXCLUSIVE: Following the success of The Household Plan final month, Apple Authentic Movies and Skydance are reteaming on one other tentpole as Deadline is listening to John Krasinski and Natalie Portman are set to star in Fountain of Youth with Man Ritchie directing. Skydance Media will function the studio, and the movie will likely be produced for Apple by Skydance, Vinson Movies and Venture X Leisure.
Written by James Vanderbilt, the pic follows two estranged siblings (Krasinski and Portman) who companion on a world heist to search out the mythological Fountain of Youth. They have to use their information of historical past to comply with clues on an epic journey that can change their lives — and presumably result in immortality.
Hailing from a first-look partnership between Apple and Skydance Media, Fountain of Youth will likely be produced by Skydance’s David Ellison, Dana Goldberg and Don Granger. Tripp Vinson will produce via his Vinson Movies as will Venture X Leisure, with Vanderbilt, William Sherak, Paul Neinstein producing for the corporate. Ritchie & Ivan Atkinson and Jake Myers are also producing with Radio Silence (Matt Bettinelli-Olpin, Tyler Gillett and Chad Villella) serving as government producers.
The movie has been a excessive precedence for Skydance after getting a script from Vanderbilt that based on sources “blew execs away” however the studio wanted the best bundle of expertise earlier than they moved ahead with it. Ritchie, who has been as busy as any director on the town, had been eyeing the challenge for the reason that spring with Krasinski additionally circling it across the similar time however the twin strikes pressured issues to be placed on pause. As soon as each strikes have been settled, each gave their commitments and the delay additionally opened the door for Portman to land the opposite lead together with her schedule opening up on the high of 2024. The plan is to shoot in first quarter of 2024.
The information comes a month after Apple and Skydance’s The Household Plan starring Mark Wahlberg grew to become the largest movie to premiere on Apple TV+. The partnership has a powerful slate forward with some high-profile titles together with the high-action, genre-bending movie The Gorge starring Miles Teller and Anya Taylor-Pleasure; and, lately introduced action-adventure movie Mayday with Ryan Reynolds and Kenneth Branagh set to star within the lead roles.
Krasinski is in post-production on IF for Paramount, which he wrote, directed, produced, and starred. The movie will launch theatrically in Could 2024 and options a formidable forged together with Ryan Reynolds, Cailey Fleming, Phoebe Waller-Bridge, Fiona Shaw, Lou Gossett Jr, and Steve Carell. The trailer lately dropped to excessive reward and Paramount is positioning as one among their large pics of 2024.
His directing took off after directing, writing and starring within the Oscar-nominated 2019 thriller A Quiet Place, one of many shock hits of the 12 months resulting in its 2021 sequel A Quiet Place: Half II. On the performing facet, he lately wrapped his hit collection Jack Ryan, which aired its remaining season final summer season on Prime Video.
For Portman this marks a reunion for her and Apple as she and her producing companion Sophie Mas lately inked a first-look TV cope with Apple TV+ for his or her manufacturing firm MountainA. By way of this deal, they’re producing the Apple Authentic restricted collection Woman In The Lake, which will likely be Natalie’s TV performing debut. MountainA additionally produced the Golden Globes and Movie Unbiased Spirit Awards nominated darkish comedy Could December from director Todd Haynes the place Portman stars reverse Julianna Moore. For this function, She obtained a Golden Globe nomination for Greatest Actress- Musical or Comedy and a Movie Unbiased Spirit Award for Greatest Lead Efficiency. In Could 2023, MountainA produced the docuseries Angel Metropolis via MAX.
Ritchie has been as busy as any director during the last 12 months began together with his critically acclaimed Afghan conflict thriller The Covenant starring Jake Gyllenhaal, which bowed final April. He additionally in a position to shoot not one however two movies in 2023, the World Warfare II motion pic The Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare starring Henry Cavill and an untitled heist thriller reuniting him with Gyllenhaal and Cavill, which they shot with a SAG AFTRA interim settlement within the fall.
Venture X and Radio Silence had one other large 12 months on the Scream franchise entrance as Scream IV, which they produced, grew to become the largest movie within the franchises historical past on the box-office.
Portman is represented by CAA and Legal professional George Sheanshang, Krasinski is represented by WME and Schreck Rose Dapello Adams Berlin & Dunham, Ritchie is represented by WME and Vanderbilt is represented by WME. Radio Silence is repped by UTA.