As her ongoing legal battle with her It Ends with Us director and co-star Justin Baldoni rumbles on, Blake Lively is looking to get back in front of the camera with THR revealing that the actress is teaming with Wicked producer Marc Platt for the action rom-com The Survival List.
As per the trade, The Survival List will reunite Lively with Lionsgate, the studio behind A Simple Favor and its recent sequel Another Simple Favor, and is based on a spec script by Tom Melia, the screenwriter behind the BAFTA-nominated British film Rye Lane.
The Survival List will see Lively starring as “a highbrow reality TV producer named Annie who, against her wishes, is assigned to a new show hosted by a famous survival expert, Chopper Lane. However, when a shipwreck strands them on a deserted island, Annie discovers Chopper is a fraud and knows nothing about survival, leaving her in charge of figuring out how to keep them alive. Forced to work together, they begin to discover an unlikely chemistry.”
As yet, there’s no word on casting for the character of Chopper Lane, nor a director for the project. However, Lively and Platt will produce the film, with Lionsgate’s Scott O’Brien overseeing for the studio.
