Looks like Bradley Cooper has become Joe Carnahan’s new go-to-guy after Chris Pine.
Cooper, who has just finished work on Carnahan’s “The A-Team,” has signed up to lead his next project, “The Grey,” which has already garnered strong interest internationally and built a $35 million budget.
The film centers on a group of survivors of plane crash who are then hunted by a pack of wolves. Of the film, Carnahan previously noted a focus on “a group of pipeline workers in Alaska flying back into civilization after being remote for a number of months. The 737 they’re on goes down, and they begin to be hunted by a pack of rogue wolves. It’s very much a man vs. nature adventure, existentialist kind of drama that I want to do.”
Ridley and Tony Scott’s Scott Free will produce while Inferno Entertainment is fully financing and handling foreign sales. No word yet on a production start date.
Carnahan has already expressed a desire to return to his James Ellroy adaptation “White Jazz” and or his Pablo Escobar story “Killing Pablo” after this but whether or not that will come to fruition remains to be seen, especially after all their previous production troubles. Perhaps his work on “A-Team” though and a decent showing from “The Grey” will earn him a check and a green light for one of them somewhere? Either way, it appears that maybe it’s too early to give up on the filmmaker who appears to be taking the “one for them [studio], one for us” approach to filmmaking because “The Grey” sounds about 10,000 times more substantial then his ’80s TV show adaptation.