After slowing down for a few years, Anne Hathaway has had a fire lit all of a sudden. In recent weeks she’s signed on for new films by Christopher Nolan and Joseph Gordon-Levitt, plus the next Colleen Hover adaptation Verity, but she’s hardly done. Deadline reports Hathaway will star with Dave Bautista in an untitled wedding sting action-comedy for Amazon MGM and the Russo Brothers’ label AGBO.
The film is based on a real-life sting in which two agents posed as a couple to bust up a criminal operation, leading to an actual staged wedding. Hathaway and Bautista will be paired up as mismatched undercover FBI agents forced into the phony wedding arrangement.
Jonathan Tropper will pen the screenplay. He’s the writer behind This is Where I Leave You, The Adam Project, and the upcoming cop comedy The Wrecking Crew. Tropper is quite busy himself, and recently signed on to showrun Reese Witherspoon’s AppleTV+ series Lucky starring Anya Taylor-Joy.
Bautista can be seen now opposite Pamela Anderson in The Last Showgirl (review here), which is open in LA now before a wider rollout next month. It’s receiving a ton of buzz and possible awards for star Pamela Anderson.
No director is attached yet, but with Hathaway and Bautista aboard it shouldn’t take long to find one.
