Apple Original Films has won a spirited auction to land The Corsair Code, an original feature film set to star Chris Hemsworth. The film is based on a short story by Jonathan Tropper, which he brought to Hemsworth and his producing partner Ben Grayson.
Hemsworth and Grayson will produce through their Wild State shingle, and Apple Studios will serve as the studio. Tropper will write the screenplay and produce through his shingle Tropper Ink.
The Corsair Code is described as a high-octane, sci-fi mystery adventure, but they are keeping plot specifics under wraps.
Tropper already is in business with an overall TV deal at Apple TV+, where he created and is the showrunner of Your Friends and Neighbors, which is in production, with Mad Men’s Jon Hamm the EP and star of the series. Tropper has two films heading into production this fall: The Wrecking Crew with Angel Manuel Soto directing Jason Momoa and Dave Bautista, and he rewrote Matchbox for Mattel Films with Extraction helmer Sam Hargrave directing. And, oh yeah, Tropper is going to write the Star Wars film that Deadpool & Wolverine’s Shawn Levy will direct. Novelist-screenwriter Tropper scripted the Levy-directed Ryan Reynolds starrer The Adam Project and the Levy-directed This Is Where I Leave You with Jason Bateman and Tina Fey. He also wrote Kodachrome, which starred Ed Harris, Jason Sudeikis and Elizabeth Olsen, and was EP and showrunner for the second and third seasons of Apple TV+’s See, which starred Momoa. Tropper also was co-creator and EP of Banshee.
There are no hardware barriers to enjoying Apple TV+ at least. There is a financial barrier, but same can be said of Netflix and such.
True. But there’s a barrier to owning anything made by Apple TV. As far as I’ve seen, they don’t license for physical media.
True, but again, I think that’s the same for all of them. Whole industry is rotten.