BEVERLY HILLS, CA – MARCH 04: J.J. Abrams attends the 2018 Vanity Fair Oscar Party hosted by Radhika Jones at Wallis Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts on March 4, 2018 in Beverly Hills, California. (Photo by Dia Dipasupil/Getty Images)
Last year, Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker director J.J. Abrams and signed a fantastically lucrative deal with WarnerMedia for his production company, Bad Robot. Now, The Hollywood Reporter has the scoop on the first result of that deal: The Pinkerton, “a supernatural revenge thriller in what sources say is a Western setting” penned by 10 Cloverfield Lane writer Daniel Casey.
And that’s about all we know. We’re not even sure if this is a movie to be shown in theaters or if it’s being developed for HBO Max, WarnerMedia’s upcoming streaming service. I wouldn’t be surprised if it’s for HBO Max, since the company needs all the firepower it can get if it’s going to compete with the likes of Netflix and Disney+ when the service launches in May. Good luck, everyone!
As for the movie itself, the Pinkerton Detective agency is a real-life organization that made a name for itself working for corporations during America’s industrial revolution. And apparently they provided bodyguards for Abraham Lincoln? Didn’t work.
Anyway, maybe Abrams’ movie will look to the real-life history of the Pinkerton Detective agency for inspiration, but add in a dragon or a Frankenstein or something. I’ve seen worse. There’s no release date as of yet, so there’s plenty of time to fill in the details.
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