Dave Bautista(Project)

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STX To Build Star Vehicle For 'Blade Runner 2049's Dave Bautista

EXCLUSIVE: After showy turns in the Guardians of the Galaxy franchise and tomorrow’s opener Blade Runner 2049, former wrestler and mixed martial arts fighter Dave Bautista is getting his own movie vehicle to shine in. STX has closed a deal to partner with Bautista and develop an action-comedy franchise that he will star in and produce. Jonathan Meisner will co-produce alongside Bautista, and Drew Simon will oversee the project for the studio.

Aside from his work opposite Ryan Gosling and Harrison Ford in the Denis Villeneuve-directed Blade Runner 2049, Bautista stars in a short film made to tie the new film to the Ridley Scott-directed 1982 predecessor. Bautista’s been appearing in more studio fare, after his breakout turn as Drax the Destroyer in Marvel’s Guardians of the Galaxy and its sequel. He has taken Drax to the Joe and Anthony Russo-directed Avengers: Infinity War, and he’s currently shooting the sequel. Separately, Bautista wrapped the Lionsgate pic Hotel Artemis, opposite Jodie Foster, and stars with Sylvester Stallone in both upcoming Escape Plan sequels. Bautista has started to build a following overseas, and stars in the Chinese Ip Man spinoff for director Yuen Wo-Ping. He also starred in and produced Bushwick, a drama seen at the Cannes Film Festival and Sundance. Also upcoming, he stars with Pierce Brosnan and Ray Stevenson in the Scott Mann-directed Final Score for Signature, the Fyzz Facility and Atmosphere.

Bautista returned to the WWE to headline 2014’s Wrestlemania. That’s where he got his start, as a six-time world champion and international spokesman for the company. Bautista is repped by Gersh, MSK’s Jay Rosenthal and Meisner Entertainment Group.

Here is the Blade Runner 2049 short that stars Bautista:

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Jon & Erich Hoeber Set To Pen Dave Bautista Action Comedy For STXfilms

Scribes Jon and Erich Hoeber are reteaming with STXfilms and have been tapped to pen the family action-comedy movie that will star Dave Bautista to kick off a potential franchise. Deadline broke the story in October that the Guardians of the Galaxy and Blade Runner 2049 tough guy — a former wrestler and mixed martial arts fighter — closed a deal with STX to develop a franchise that he will star in and produce.

The film will follow a hardened CIA operative (Bautista) who finds himself at the mercy of a precocious 9-year-old girl, having been sent undercover to surveil her family. Bautista and Jonathan Meisner are set as producers, and STXfilms’ Drew Simon and Kate Vorhoff will oversee.

The Hoeber brothers were already in business with STXfilms having helped out on The Happytime Murders, which is set in an L.A. underbelly where puppets and humans co-exist. It centers on clashing detectives — one human (Melissa McCarthy) and the other a puppet — who are forced to work together to solve the mystery of who is murdering the former cast of The Happytime Gang, a beloved classic puppet show. That pic has an August 17, 2018 release date.

The brothers’ writing credits include the Red movies and Battleship, and the upcoming shark pic The Meg starring Jason Statham. They are repped by Verve and Peikoff Mahan.