Chad Stahelski is branching out in a big way from the John Wick franchise he helped launch. He’s got multiple action projects in the works, and now he’s added one more. THR reports Stahelski will produce an adaptation of the 2017 California resistance comic book, Calexit.
If Calexit sounds a bit too much like our reality right now, well, that’s probably the point. The story takes place in a near-future fictional California that refuses to be ruled by the fascist President of the United States.
Stahelski will produce from a script by Matteo Pizzolo, who also co-created the comic with artist Amancay Nahuelpan.
SYNOPSIS: What if a fascist, autocratic President took over the United States? And what if that President lost California, the sixth largest economy on Earth, by nearly 2-to-1…a margin of almost 3 1/2 million votes? What if the day after that President took power, the largest mass demonstration in history occurred, and the state with the largest turnout was California. And then, the following week, two of the largest international airports in the world, California’s LAX and SFO, were blockaded by protesters. What if California refused to be ruled?
Add this to Stahelski’s loaded schedule. Coming up, he has his Highlander remake with Henry Cavill, a Rainbow Six movie with Michael B. Jordan, a big-screen adaptation of the hit Playstation video game Ghosts of Tsushima, and of course, John Wick 5.
