Matthew McConaughey To Play Mike Hammer

Matthew McConaughey is re-teaming with his “True Detective” creator Nic Pizzolatto for a new film, a detective story set up at Skydance in which the actor would play iconic private investigator Mike Hammer.

Skydance acquired the rights to Mickey Spillane’s and Max Allan Collins’ “Mike Hammer” franchise with the plan being to develop and produce the bestselling book series into a feature film.

Pizzolatto will pen the script while David Ellison, Dana Goldberg, Don Granger, Guymon Casady, Benjamin Forkner and Ken F. Levin produce.

McConaughey recently returned to the screen after a six-year hiatus with “The Rivals of Amziah King,” and will next star alongside America Ferrera in the Apple TV+ disaster thriller “The Lost Bus.” “I needed to write my own story, direct my own story on the page,” McConaughey told Variety earlier this year of his time away from the camera.

Pizzolatto recently shot his first work as writer-director, “Easy’s Waltz,” and has multiple projects set at Skydance along with a television show in development with Netflix.

Source: Variety

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