EXCLUSIVE: Pierre Morel, the veteran motion director behind Taken, has been tapped to direct a characteristic based mostly on the favored racing NFT Reactor Motors from the corporate of the identical identify, Deadline has realized.
The movie will probably be produced by Morel, Mike Bundlie and Barry Levine (Oblivion, Hercules) of Summary Leisure, and Renee Tab of Sentient Leisure (Peppermint, Overdrive).
Created by artist and Summary co-founder Bundlie, Reactor Motors’ storyline follows geophysicist Eva Mason as she by chance discovers a brand new mineral she calls Reykium whereas researching geothermal power in Iceland’s volcanoes. The mineral is energetically reactive to metallic which she and her workforce convert into the way forward for clear power race automobiles in hopes of constructing it globally obtainable. Subsequently, her workforce’s racing wins be a focus for an power conglomerate that may do something to amass the Reykium engine.
“Pierre is the proper director for REACTOR along with his skill to convey deeply emotional connections to characters inside a excessive octane motion setting,” Bundlie instructed Deadline. “Having him, Summary and Sentient on the helm, is our dream workforce for introducing the world of REACTOR to a brand new viewers. “I’m overjoyed to be bringing this world to the display that has been so passionately supported by the collectors.”
As the primary procedurally generated video NFT assortment on Open Sea, the customized automobiles of Reactor, each distinctive with various ranges of rarity, rapidly offered out to curious followers. These followers grew to become a group as Reactor Motors expanded the model into the primary console-style NFT racing sport in-built Unreal Engine, the place homeowners of the NFT Reactor automobiles can race one another in a 3D world immersed within the storyline. The sport is in Beta testing and obtainable to anybody who owns a Reactor NFT.
In celebration of the characteristic, a brand new collection of Reactor Automotive NFTs, presently dubbed the Y Collection, will probably be introduced on the market in Q2. Along with the movie and sport, Reactor Motors has introduced further licenses and merchandise together with an upcoming augmented actuality comedian e-book collection and graphic novel being distributed by Summary Comics, a division of Summary Leisure, which focuses on the origin story of Reactor and the way Eva and her workforce first developed the automobiles which can be central to the online game. The comics could have particular version covers from prime comedian trade artists together with Rob Prior, whose work with Star Wars, Stan Lee and Marvel has earned him followers worldwide.
A cinematographer turned director, Morel is greatest recognized for helming Taken, the modestly budgeted French indie thriller that went on to gross practically $300M worldwide and spawned two sequels and a tv collection, making it one of many uncommon indie movie franchises in historical past to gross $1B worldwide. Previous to that, he helmed the French-language Parkour actioner District B13 which grew to become a cult traditional and spawned each a sequel and an English-language remake.
Different options from Morel embody the French actioner From Paris with Love, worldwide spy drama The Gunman starring Sean Penn, Javier Bardem and Mark Rylance, and the latest feminine pushed action-thriller Peppermint. Most lately directing the motion comedy Freelance, starring John Cena and Alison Brie, Morel additionally directed and exec produced the pilot for each NBC medical collection The Evening Shift and ABC sci-fi drama Zero Hour. Presently, he’s in submit on Canary Black, an motion characteristic starring Kate Beckinsale.
Creating and producing extremely visible movies based mostly on the graphic novels it releases, Summary Leisure’s founders most lately produced Spike Lee’s Da 5 Bloods and Netflix’s award winner Bushes of Peace.
Coming off of shock blockbuster Sound of Freedom, Sentient is in submit alongside Morel on Canary Black. In pre-production on Final Meals starring Boyd Holbrook and Kelly Reilly, the corporate additionally has a remake of supernatural horror The Others arrange at Common.
Morel is repped by UTA, Sentient’s Renee Tab and lawyer Gretchen Rush.
