EXCLUSIVE: After a very eventful summer that included the blockbuster phenomenon Top Gun: Maverick, Miles Teller looks to have found his next event pic and is reuniting with a familiar friend for it. Sources tell Deadline, Teller is in final negotiations to star in Skydance’s upcoming film, The Gorge, with Scott Derrickson directing the pic, which is based on spec script by The Tomorrow War scribe Zach Dean. Skydance produced Top Gun: Maverick, which starred Tom Cruise and Teller and which just passed the $1.4 billion global box-office milestone.
Skydance’s David Ellison, Dana Goldberg, Don Granger are producing alongside Crooked Highway’s Scott Derrickson, C. Robert Cargill, Sherryl Clark, as well as Dean, Adam Kolbrenner and Greg Goodman.
Logline is being kept under wraps, but is described as a high-action, genre-bending love story.
After spending the end of the spring and start of his summer promoting Top Gun: Maverick around the world as well as his Netflix thriller Spiderhead and the event series The Offer, Teller chose to enjoy the rest of his summer before diving into that next project. Even during this break, sources say he was actively reading scripts looking for that right project following success of Top Gun: Maverick.
While Teller was deciding, Derrickson was also weighing his own options following The Black Phone‘s own success, which has brought in $150 million at the global box-office on a $25 million budget. Derrickson had been developing a number of things including The Gorge and Skydance knew they needed to get a star attached to this pic to make sure Derrickson committed to this as his next film and made sure to get that script in front of Teller, who was excited at the idea of teaming up again with Skydance given the recent success of Top Gun: Maverick. Following meetings with producers and Derrickson, Teller was on board and the film quickly moved into position to be both Teller and Derrickson’s next film.
Teller is repped by CAA and Goodman, Genow, Schenkman, Smelkinson & Christopher and Derrickson is repped by WME and Brillstein Entertainment Partners.
Coming off the hugely successful Top Gun: Maverick, Skydance’s upcoming live-action film slate includes the seventh and eighth installments of the wildly popular Mission: Impossible series, along with The Greatest Beer Run Ever and Ghosted for Apple TV+ and The Old Guard 2, Heart of Stone and a reimagining of the successful 2001 Spy Kids franchise for Netflix.
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