Warner Bros. is in final negotiations to acquire Shiver, a unique sci-fi package that has Keanu Reeves attached to star and Deadpool helmer Tim Miller attached to direct.
Aaron Ryder, who counts love story All of You and Gamestop movie Dumb Money among his recent credits, is on board to produce along with Matthew Vaughn, the filmmaker behind the Kingsman action movie franchise.
Ian Schorr wrote the script for Shiver, which has been described as having shades of Edge of Tomorrow, the Tom Cruise sci-fi movie about a soldier trapped in a time loop during an alien invasion, and The Shallows, the Blake Lively shark survival movie.
Plot details are very hazy, but the word on the street is that the story centers on a ne’er-do-well smuggler who finds himself in the middle of a deadly double-cross while on a job in the Caribbean Sea, resulting in him surrounded by bodies, hostile mercenaries and thirsty sharks alike. He next finds himself a deathly time loop and scrambling to break the cycle.
Schorr’s credits include Infinite, a 2021 sci-fi action movie made by Paramount+ that starred Mark Wahlberg and Chiwetel Ejiofor, and the horror comedy Office Uprising, made by now-shuttered streaming service Sony Crackle.
Miller was a vfx wiz who made his directorial debut with Deadpool, the Ryan Reynolds-starring anti-superhero movie that became a record-breaking box office sensation and launched a franchise. While Miller didn’t return for the sequel, he did direct 2019’s Terminator: Dark Fate, James Cameron’s return to the killer cyborg from the future franchise that was to have relaunched a film series. Sadly, it didn’t. Miller has also kept busy as the creator of Netflix’s award-winning adult animated anthology series Love, Death & Robots.
Reeves is coming off the back-to-back releases of Ballerina, Lionsgate’s John Wick spinoff, and Good Fortune, the Aziz Ansari-directed comedy also made by Lionsgate. Sadly, neither were hits. But the actor remains in top demand and has several tentpoles in development, including BRZRKR at Netflix, based on the Boom! Studios comic he co-created.
All the players in Shiver, from the talent to the producers, are repped by WME, which put together the package before taking it out to studio buyers.
