EXCLUSIVE: Corey Stoll (Billions) has come aboard for a job within the live-action Matchbox movie from Apple Unique Movies, starring John Cena, Deadline has realized.
All character particulars stay underneath wraps, as does the movie’s plot. Impressed by Mattel‘s die-cast toy automobile line of the identical identify, the challenge hails from Skydance and Mattel Movies. Stoll is a part of an increasing solid that additionally consists of Jessica Biel, Sam Richardson, Teyonah Parris, Arturo Castro and Danai Gurira.
Sam Hargrave (Extraction franchise) is directing Matchbox from a script by David Coggeshall (The Household Plan) and Jonathan Tropper (upcoming Your Buddies and Neighbors). Producers embrace Skydance’s David Ellison, Dana Goldberg, and Don Granger, and Robbie Brenner for Mattel Movies, together with Jules Daly.
The Matchbox model was invented in 1953 by automotive fanatic Jack Odell to resolve a problem for his daughter, who was allowed to take a toy to highschool provided that it was sufficiently small to slot in a matchbox. When his daughter’s faculty buddies, too, started clamoring for a “matchbox automotive,” a permanent model was born. The excessive requirements of authenticity for Matchbox die-cast automobiles have pushed the model for over 70 years and generations of followers. At present, two Matchbox automobiles are bought each second someplace world wide.
Matchbox is a part of a slate of Apple movies from Skydance that additionally consists of genre-bender The Gorge starring Miles Teller and Anya Taylor-Pleasure; Man Ritchie’s Fountain of Youth, starring Natalie Portman and John Krasinksi; action-adventure Might Day with Ryan Reynolds and Kenneth Branagh; and McG’s Means of the Warrior Child, produced by and starring Chris Pratt.
Recognized for roles in Showtime’s Billions, the Ant-Man movies, Home of Playing cards and way more, Stoll most lately wrapped reverse Jessica Biel and Elizabeth Banks on The Higher Sister, a brand new thriller sequence for Prime Video, primarily based on the novel by Alafair Burke. Receiving a Tony Award nomination final season for his function reverse Sarah Paulson in Brandon Jacob-Jenkins’s Acceptable on Broadway, the actor is represented by UTA, Suskin/Karshan Administration, and SRDA Regulation.
