The Bodyguard’ Remake With ‘Taylor Swift: Eras Tour’ Director Sam Wrench And ‘Juror No. 2’ Scribe In Works At Warner Bros
Warner Bros has just set plans to revamp The Bodyguard, the 1992 romantic drama thriller that teamed superstars Kevin Costner and Whitney Houston. The studio, which released the original, has set Taylor Swift: The Eras Tour director Sam Wrench to helm and script by Juror No. 2 writer Jonathan A. Abrams, Deadline has learned.
The news was revealed Friday in an interview with Warner Bros’ co-film bosses Mike De Luca and Pam Abdy. No casting has been set, but after the first film’s star duo and box office success (it made $411 million worldwide box office and landed a pair of Oscar nominations) it certainly will be a casting process to watch. Beyond Swift, there are many singers who could play the singing star that
Wrench was the director behind Taylor Swift: The Eras Tour, the concert movie spawned from Swift’s historic almost two-year-long global tour that obliterated the record with more than $2 billion in ticket sales across 149 shows. The movie grossed $261.7 million worldwide.
Jonathan A. Abrams made his feature screenwriting debut with Juror #2, the Clint Eastwood-directed court thriller starring Nicholas Hoult. The pic bowed last fall to critical acclaim and grossed $24.8 million in the U.S.
Warner Bros has been prioritizing finding directors who spark to the company’s IP, with other revivals in the works for franchises like The Matrix (with Drew Goddard writing and directing), the recent Beetlejuice Beetlejuice, and past hits like Practical Magic reteaming Nicole Kidman and Sandra Bullock, and Gremlins and Goonies in development with Chris Columbus.
