SIN CITY and PLANET TERROR writer-director Robert Rodriguez is heading back to the big screen with a big-budget action thriller going by the title HYPNOTIC. The cast are in discussions for the project, which is budgeted $60 million-$80 million.
Rodriguez scripted the movie with Max Borenstein (KONG: SKULL ISLAND). It follows
a detective who becomes entangled in a mystery involving his missing daughter and a secret government program, while investigating a string of impossible high-end heists.
Studio 8 and Solstice Studios will produce the film, with Solstice spearheading U.S. distribution and international sales, and Studio 8 retaining the option to co-finance. Rodriguez, Jeff Robinov, Guy Danella, and John Graham will produce. Shooting starts early next year.
His last film was ALITA: BATTLE ANGEL which he directed from a screenplay written by James Cameron and Laeta Kalogridis based on Battle Angel Alita by Yukito Kishiro. Set several centuries in the future, the film centered on
The abandoned Alita is found in the scrapyard of Iron City by Ido, a compassionate cyber-doctor who takes the unconscious cyborg Alita to his clinic. When Alita awakens, she has no memory of who she is, nor does she have any recognition of the world she finds herself in. As Alita learns to navigate her new life and the treacherous streets of Iron City, Ido tries to shield her from her mysterious past.
Cameron produced with Jon Landau and the film starred Rosa Salazar, Christoph Waltz, Jennifer Connelly, Mahershala Ali, Ed Skrein, Jackie Earle Haley, and Keean Johnson. 20th Century Fox released the flick in theaters back on February 14, 2019. Buy it on Blu-ray RIGHT HERE.