EXCLUSIVE: Hunters and Invasion showrunner David Weil is poised to make his feature directing debut on Tyrant, part of a preemptive spec deal for his script made by Amazon/MGM Studios.
Tyrant is a high-stakes thriller in the vein of Whiplash that is set in the fine dining world. This one is on a fast track and casting will start immediately.
The Picture Company partners Alex Heineman & Andrew Rona will produce the film. Last month, The Picture Company set up the Weil (and David J. Rosen) spec Supermax at Miramax. Heineman and Rona also brought in Weil to work on their sci-fi thriller Out There, at Netflix.
Tyrant is based on a story by Weil and Cody Behan, and Weil wrote the script. He’ll also produce with his producing partner Natalie Laine Williams.
Weil is currently adapting for United Artists and Conclave director Edward Berger the film about Evan Gershkovich, the Wall Street Journal foreign correspondent who was thrown into a Russian prison for a year on bogus spying charges. Weil also is writing the high profile Chris Hemsworth starring action film Extraction 3 for Netflix. He is the creator of Hunters, the Nazi-hunter series starring Al Pacino, and Solos for Amazon/MGM, and he co-created Invasion at Apple TV+, which just finished filming its third season.
The Picture Company is coming off the Best Picture-nominated Bob Dylan film A Complete Unknown and is in post on the James McAvoy-Julianne Moore starrer Control for Studiocanal. Weil is represented by CAA and Jackoway Austen Tyerman and The Picture Company by CAA. Behan is repped by CAA and Jackoway Austen Tyerman
