John Boyega, Robert De Niro to Star in Crime Film ‘The

John Boyega and Robert De Niro will star collectively in a criminal offense thriller referred to as “The Formula” at Netflix, and Gerard McMurray, the director of “The First Purge” and Netflix’s “Burning Sands,” will direct.

McMurray will write, direct and produce the movie based mostly on an authentic thought however that’s harking back to “Drive” a couple of Formula One racing prodigy who turns into a getaway driver in an effort to look after and rescue his household.

De Niro may even produce “The Formula” together with Jane Rosenthal and Berry Welsh.

Rosenthal and Welsh have an total take care of Netflix, and “The Formula” got here collectively underneath that association. Jason Michael Berman is government producing the movie, and Ephraim Walker, working underneath McMurray’s banner Buppie Productions, is co-producing, as is Sam Shaw.

Boyega, who broke out within the newest “Star Wars” trilogy, most lately starred in one of many 5 installments of Steve McQueen’s “Small Axe” anthology, “Red, White and Blue.” He is presently at work on “They Cloned Tyrone” reverse Jamie Foxx.

De Niro lately joined the solid of David O. Russell’s untitled subsequent movie at New Regency, and he’s hooked up to Martin Scorsese’s “Killers of the Flower Moon.” He’ll even be seen within the thriller “Wash Me in the River” with John Malkovich and James Gray’s “Armageddon Time” with Cate Blanchett, Anne Hathaway, Oscar Isaac and Donald Sutherland.

“The Formula” shall be McMurray’s third characteristic and his follow-up to “The First Purge,” which grossed almost $70 million domestically for Universal in 2018. He first directed “Burning Sands” for Netflix again in 2017.

Boyega is represented by Identity Agency Group, De Niro is represented by CAA. McMurray is represented by WME and Artists First.

Deadline first reported the information.