According to Variety, China’s Jiaflix Pictures and 1905 Pictures have enlisted The Fast and the Furious and xXx director Rob Cohen to direct a new $100 million-budgeted car-racing action thriller entitled Speedhunters.
The site reports that the film “is set in the near future and rooted in the world of Formula racing. A colorful team of racers and crew gets drawn into high intrigue around a revolutionary technology that threatens to change the world.”
“Opportunities to capture speed and action in a new way, using new filmic techniques, are rare and valuable to me,” said Cohen. “So it was with Josh Parkinson’s script. It told a story on which I could build a tapestry of break-the-limit speed, adrenaline, and a core group of great characters.”
Production on Speedhunters is set to get underway in July ahead of a summer 2018 release. Cohen meanwhile is putting the finishing touches to his latest film Category 5, which stars Toby Kebbell, Maggie Grace and Ryan Kwanten.
Originally published April 7, 2017. Updated April 16, 2018.
