Chris Pratt and Linda Cardellini Set to Star in WAY OF THE WARRIOR KID From Director McG
Apple Studios and Skydance have teamed up to produce a new film project, Way of the Warrior Kid, which is based on the 2017 novel by Jocko Willink.
Chris Pratt (Guardians of the Galaxy) and Linda Cardellini (Dead To Me) are set to star in the film with 14-year-old Belfast breakout Jude Hill set to take on the lead role.
Hill takes on the role of Marc, “a self-doubting boy who gets bullied and is hard-pressed to complete a single pull-up, with Cardellini as Marc’s mother, Sarah.
Pratt will play Marc’s uncle, Jake, “an elite Navy SEAL, is injured on a mission and moves in with his sister for rehab. When he discovers his 13-year-old nephew is struggling academically, socially and physically, Jake takes on a new mission: using his SEAL Team training over three months of summer to help the youth find his inner warrior.”
The movie is being directed by McG (Terminator: Salvation) and it sounds like a great uplifting story that will make for a solid movie and the kind of film that McG will actually do a good job with.
The film will be produced by Skydance’s David Ellison, Dana Goldberg and Don Granger, alongside McG and Mary Viola for Wonderland Sound, and Pratt for Indivisible Productions.
Source: Deadline