It appears like filmmaker Gina Prince-Bythewood is really aching to do an action film for her next project. The director of films like “The Secret Life of Bees” and “Beyond the Lights” has been attached to the upcoming on-again, off-again “Spider-Man” spin-off film “Silver & Black,” but with that film in limbo, reports are surfacing that she’s moving onto something else.
According to Omega Underground (and confirmed by THR), Prince-Bythewood isn’t content with waiting around for “Silver & Black” to move forward and has decided to board the action film “Old Guard.” The film, based on a comic series by Greg Rucka and Leandro Fernandez, follows a group of soldiers that are inexplicably immortal and work as trained mercenaries. Things get turned upside down when they run into another immortal soldier, a black woman in the Marines, and a secret organization is attempting to out their existence to the world.
While reports say that the director is staying on board “Silver & Black” for Sony, she wants to tackle “Old Guard” in the meantime, with a suspected production start date sometime this fall. That would push the Spider-Verse film to 2020, at the earliest.
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Other than the aforementioned films, Prince-Bythewood has been busy recently in the world of TV, as the pilot director of the Freeform Marvel series “Cloak & Dagger,” as well as the director on the pilot for “Shots Fired.” “Old Guard” marks her debut in the world of big-budget action films, but clearly that’s a trajectory that the filmmaker has been itching to explore.
As mentioned, “Old Guard” is expected to begin production in the fall, and hopes to have a release sometime in 2019.