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John Cena is in talks to star in Pierre Morel's new action-comedy Freelance, According to Deadline.com, the film will have an estimated $40 million budget and follows a special forces operator (Cena) who decides to retire from the Army and start a family back in the States. After several years of mortgage payments, school drop offs, backyard barbecues and trying to conform to life in suburbia, he decides to come out of retirement to take a gig providing security for a female journalist as she interviews a cruel dictator who may or may not have ordered the attack on him and his men. When a military coup breaks out in the middle of the interview, the three are forced to escape into the jungle where they must survive the elements, the military and one another.
Morel is best known for directing the original Taken with Liam Neeson. Freelance is slated to start shooting in Columbia early next year with Jacob Lentz, best known as a writer from ABCs Jimmy Kimmel Live, making his feature film writing debut.
The project is likely to be sold at the Virtual AFM event on November 1st.
Additional casting has begun.
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