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Danish star Claes Bang (Netflix’s Dracula) has been set to play the villain opposite Dave Bautista and Jason Momoa in The Wrecking Crew.
This is a buddy action movie set up at Amazon MGM Studios. It follows two half-brothers. One is a loose-cannon cop (Momoa), and the other is a disciplined Navy SEAL (Bautista). After a 20-year fraternal feud, they are forced to work together to unravel the conspiracy behind their father’s murder in Hawaii.
So far, so generic. Hopefully, Bang can bring a bit of class to the proceedings and have fun with some Eurotrash villainy and scenery chewing. He was outstanding as Dracula in Steven Moffat and Mark Gatiss’ otherwise highly average production for Netflix. He will shortly be appearing in the Apple TV+ series The New Look, and was recently in Doug Liman’s Locked Down and Robert Eggers’ The Northman.
Ángel Manuel Soto (Blue Beetle) directs from a script by Jonathan Tropper with Matt Reeves, Lynn Harris, Jeffrey Fierson, Bautista, and Momoa producing.
The project is notable as the whole thing only came about as a result of a tweet by Dave Bautista in 2021:
“Just going to throw this out into the atmosphere and see what happens. Here we go… Me and Momoa in a Lethal Weapon type buddy cop movie directed by David Leitch. Ok! There it is. Now we wait. — Dave Bautista (@DaveBautista) August 19, 2021″
They didn’t get David Leitch as the director due to other commitments, but everything else fell into place. The Wrecking Crew was delayed by the strikes but is now preparing to shoot.
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