Jared Leto, John Mulaney & Lupita Nyong’o Team For True-Story Heist Movie From Spider-Verse Director

Lunik Heist, the new movie from director Kemp Powers, has assembled an all-star cast. Powers is best known for co-directing Pixar’s Soul (with Pete Docter), the Marvel sequel Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse (with

Joaquim Dos Santos and Justin K. Thompson), and the upcoming Spider-Man: Beyond the Spider-Verse (also with Dos Santos and Thompson). However, he is also a writer, having co-written Soul, been part of the writing staff of Star Trek: Discovery, and adapted One Night in Miami from his own play of the same name.

Per Deadline, Powers is attached to Lunik Heist, an upcoming heist movie adapting an MIT Technology Review article by Jeff Maysh that is based on the true story of a scheme where the U.S. government attempted to infiltrate a Mexico City exposition to steal a Soviet spacecraft. Additionally, Jared Leto, John Mulaney, and Lupita Nyong’o have joined the cast in as-yet unspecified roles. Maysh is executive producing the project. Producers include Leto and Emma Ludbrook through Paradox as well as Gran Via Productions’ Mark Johnson.

The production timeline of the project has not yet been announced, though it is being overseen by Searchlight Pictures’ Director of Development Zahra Phillip. Below, read a statement on the movie from Searchlight Pictures president Matthew Greenfield:

We’re so thrilled to bring together such an exceptional team. With the extraordinary talents of Jared, Lupita, and John, led by the visionary Kemp, Lunik Heist is a wild, roller-coaster ride, filled with subterfuge and unlikely heroes.

More to come…

Source: Deadline