Arnold
Schwarzenegger to Star in David Ayer's Ten
Open Road Films has acquired all U.S.distribution rights to
Ten, an action thriller starring Arnold
Schwarzenegger, to be directed by David Ayer and financed by QED
International. The announcement was made today by Tom Ortenberg,
CEO of Open Road Films and Bill Block, CEO of QED
International.
Schwarzenegger, who is currently filming
The Tomb, will next appear
in
The Expendables 2, being
released in August, and stars in
The Last Stand, which will
be released in January 2013.
The project re-teams Open Road Films and filmmaker David Ayer,
whose latest film, End of Watch, will be released by Open Road on
September 28, 2012.
The original screenplay for
Ten is by Skip Woods
(
X-Men Origins: Wolverine, A Good Day to Die
Hard). Bill Block, Paul Hanson, Joe Roth, Palak Patel and Al Ruddy
will serve as producers. Alex Ott of Ayer’s Crave Films is
executive producer.
In
Ten, an elite DEA task force deals with the
world's deadliest drug cartels. Specializing in complex mobile
operations, the team executes a tactical raid on a cartel safe
house. What looks to be a typical raid turns out to be an elaborate
theft operation, pre-planned by the DEA squad. After hiding
millions in stolen cash, the team believes their secret is safe –
until someone begins assassinating them one by one.
"I am really excited about this project and the team that's come
together," said Schwarzenegger. "David Ayer is incredibly talented
and exactly what I want for a story this compelling."
Ayer stated, "This is going to be an amazing role for Arnold.
Reality is the watchword of this project and an exciting cast is in
the works. I couldn't be more excited as a filmmaker to work with
one of my longtime heroes."
"We are thrilled to be working with a world class movie-star like
Arnold Schwarzenegger and to continue to be in business with the
extraordinarily talented David Ayer," stated Ortenberg. "And we
could not be more pleased to be doing another picture with our
friend and partner Bill Block."
Block stated, "We've put together a real dream team on 'Ten.'
Arnold has been a longtime friend and bringing him together with a
provocative filmmaker like David Ayer as well as Tom Ortenberg and
his talented team at Open Road is a win for all of us."
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