Matthew McConaughey to Star in New ‘Mike Hammer’ Film

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• Matthew McConaughey is in talks to play Mike Hammer.
• ‘True Detective’s Nic Pizzolatto will write the script.
• It’ll be based mostly on Mickey Spillane’s and Max Allan Collins’ Mike Hammer franchise.

Having labored collectively on the primary season of iconic TV collection ‘True Detective,’ actor Matthew McConaughey and author/producer Nic Pizzolatto want to reunite for a brand new crime story.

In line with Deadline, McConaughey is in talks to star in a brand new adaptation of the Mike Hammer detective novels, with Pizzolatto writing the script.

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Skydance acquired the rights to Mickey Spillane’s and Max Allan Collins’ Hammer franchise with plans to develop and produce the bestselling e book collection right into a film

Skydance’s David Ellison, Dana Goldberg and Don Granger will produce together with Leisure 360’s Guymon Casady.

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Who’s Mike Hammer?

Stacy Keach as Mike Hammer in ‘Mike Hammer, Personal Eye’. Photograph: The Kushner-Locke Firm.

Mike Hammer as a personality was created by the American creator Spillane.

He debuted within the 1947 e book ‘I, the Jury’ as a no-holds-barred non-public investigator whose love for his secretary Velda is outweighed solely by his willingness to kill a killer.

Hammer’s greatest pal is Pat Chambers, Captain of NYPD Murder, and the ‘tec was a World Conflict II military veteran who spent two years combating jungle warfare within the Pacific Ocean theater in opposition to Japan.

With greater than 250 million copies of Hammer books bought globally, it usually is acknowledged as the preferred American thriller/thriller collection of all time. Hammer is credited with inspiring quite a few different characters together with Soiled Harry, Jack Reacher and James Bond, who Ian Fleming famously known as “the British reply to Mike Hammer.”

The character has been portrayed quite a few occasions in radio and on each TV and film screens, together with by Stacy Keach, Armand Assante and Darren McGavin.

There have been additionally comedian books, and Collins took over writing the character in 2008 with the collection of novels ending this 12 months.

Hammer has not had an opportunity for any characteristic movie therapy because of a long-winded rights dispute. Spillane handed away in 2006, one month after the loss of life of his supervisor Jay Bernstein. Bernstein’s property claimed possession of the character. Ken F. Levin spent a number of years in courtroom earlier than the rights got here again to the creator’s property and a transparent title may very well be delivered for a film deal.

What else has Matthew McConaughey been engaged on?

Matthew McConaughey in season 1 of ‘True Detective’. Photograph: HBO.

McConaughey’s film profession has been a little bit quieter of late –– he hasn’t appeared on the massive display in individual since 2019’s crime caper ‘The Gents.’ He did, nevertheless, lend his voice to animated sequel ‘Sing 2’ (2021) and the varied brief movies round it.

The actor was additionally the voice of Cowboypool in ‘Deadpool & Wolverine’.

And this 12 months will see him starring in two movies –– Apple Authentic Movie’s ‘The Misplaced Bus,’ a couple of bus driver who helped to rescue stranded youngsters through the 2018 Camp Hearth in California.

His different most up-to-date film, ‘The Rivals of Amziah King,’ which sees him enjoying a foster dad or mum reuniting with one among his former fees, debuted on the SXSW Movie Pageant this previous March.

Lastly, there’s the deliberate reunion with ‘True Detective’ co-star Woody Harrelson –– he performed detective Marty Hart to McConaughey’s detective Rust Cohle –– in a brand new Apple TV+ collection which can see the previous mates enjoying brothers.

Reuniting with Pizzolatto, who created the much-talked about first season of ‘True Detective’, is smart, and there’s an opportunity Pizzolatto may return to that world, because the actors have expressed a need to revisit the roles.

Right here’s what he advised Deadline:

“I even have one other story for Cohle and Hart that, who is aware of, perhaps we’ll do it sooner or later,” he started, including that he didn’t really feel beholden to persevering with the inaugural season’s storyline: “However no, there’s stress, however I don’t actually really feel or reply to stress that method. I get stress [from] myself and past that it doesn’t exist a lot for me and stress tends to extra revolve round, am I discharging my obligation accurately for me?”

When will the Mike Hammer film examine the within of theaters?

With no director connected but, and no precise distributor (although Skydance might effectively launch it by way of Paramount Photos if its merger goes by means of), there’s zero signal of a launch date at this level.

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