It’s a great day for YA movie fans (and a terrible day for anyone looking forward to a Gambit movie) as The Hollywood Reporter revealed that filmmaker Doug Liman (Edge of Tomorrow, The Bourne Identity, Mr. & Mrs. Smith) has signed on to helm Lionsgate/Summit‘s post-apocalyptic YA thriller Chaos Walking.
Committing to two back-to-back movies may indicate that Liman either has no intention of helming 20th Century Fox’s Channing Tatum mutant movie Gambit, or that film’s script is still in deep disarray.
Zemeckis and his ImageMovers’ partner Jack Rapke remain onboard as producers, with production expected to go forward in early 2017 after Liman completes work on the Amazon production The Wall starring Aaron Taylor-Johnson.