Mel Gibson & Colin Farrell to Star In Action Film War Pigs

Mel Gibson and Colin Farrell are set to star together in the Millennium Films action movieWar Pigs , place by Tommy Wirkola . Written by Nick Ball & John Niven , the labor was originally namedThe Takedown . Lorenzo di Bonaventura and Mark Vahradian are producing through Di Bonaventura Productions , together with Matt Berenson .

War Pigscenters on a crew of ex - Special Forces soldier as they go undercover as drug dealer , all as part of a revenge mission against the trigger-happy corporate trust that murdered one of their friends . At the same time , the crew tries to pull off an elaborated heist . Director Tommy Wirkola previously helm the Norwegian comedy - repugnance filmDead Snow , as well as the Jeremy Renner fancy - legal action vehicleHansel and Gretel : Witch Hunters . Wirkola also orchestrate Noomi Rapace in the Netflix sci - fi filmWhat Happened to Monday ?

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Wirkola will next study with Millennium Films onWar pig bed , andDeadlinereports that Mel Gibson and Colin Farrell have signed on to channelize up the roll . theatrical role details are thin , but Farrell will be playing a man key Drex while Gibson plays someone named The Pastor . Production on the film is gestate to begin in October .

For Gibson , being cast inWar Pigsmarks another step in the actor ’s somewhat remarkable rejoinder after years as a Hollywood Ishmael . The comeback begin in businesslike when Gibson directed the harrowing war dramaHacksaw Ridge , which garner six Oscar nomination including one for Gibson for Best Director . As further proof that Gibson has been to the full welcomed back into the Hollywood faithful , the histrion last yr starred with Will Ferrell and Mark Wahlberg in the kinsfolk - favorable clowning hitDaddy ’s menage 2 . Gibson’sbig forthcoming directorial projectis expected to be the war dramaDestroyerstarring the aforesaid Wahlberg . Gibson has alsolined up another acting rolein Joe Carnahan’sBoss Level , co - asterisk Frank Grilloand NFL mavin Rob Gronkowski .

Meanwhile , Colin Farrell can next be seenin the Gillian Flynn - scripted dramaWidows , direct by Steve McQueen and also star Viola Davis , Daniel Kaluuya , Robert Duvall and Carrie Coon . Farrell will also starin Tim Burton ’s live - actionDumboin the role of Holt Farrier , a one - arm war veteran and circus performing artist . On the opposite end of the prettiness plate fromDumbo , Farrell will get a hazard to desegregate things up in a revenge - theme action picture show with Gibson . smolder intensity level is something Farrell does almost as well as Gibson , a man known for his explosiveness both on and off the screen . Audiences will get to witness the kind of sparks that flee when Farrell and Gibson team up for Tommy Wirkola’sWar Pigs .