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THR reports that Chad Stahelski is producing The Professionals. When I read the title, I initially thought this might be a remake of the 1966 Western starring Burt Lancaster and Lee Marvin, but no. The project is said to be a cross between John Wick and Clue. I can get down with that.

The film follows “a group of contract killers stranded in an English countryside estate when one of them is murdered and the remaining group has to solve the death.” Stahelski will produce alongside Alex Young and Jason Spitz, his partners at 87Eleven, as well as Jason Michael Berman and Jordan Moldo of Mandalay Pictures. Hunter Perot, grandson of the late Ross Perot, wrote the initial draft of the screenplay. Madison Turner, a stuntman-turned-writer and son of longtime stunt performer Tierre Turner, is now tackling the script.

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It’s a whodunnit by way of an action movie.

Lionsgate has picked up The Professionals, an original feature for the action professionals at 87Eleven Entertainment to produce along with Mandalay Pictures.

Hunter Perot, the grandson of late business executive and presidential candidate Ross Perot, wrote the initial draft of the screenplay, which is now being penned by Madison Turner, a stuntman-turned-scribe who is the son of Tierre Turner, a stunt performer and coordinator who has worked on movies such as Training Day and is currently on 9-1-1.

The stunt connection is key, as it was one of the factors that brought the players together.

Chad Stahelski, the stunt maestro-turned-filmmaker behind the John Wick movies, is producing along with his 87Eleven partners Alex Young and Jason Spitz. Mandalay Pictures’ Jason Michael Berman and Jordan Moldo, who originated the project, are also producing.

Professionals is described as a combustible mix of Clue and John Wick.

MGM has picked up Nick Guthe's spec script Don Cornelius, to be produced by Cuba Gooding Jr. and Tierre Turner through their Feel Good Films along with Tollin/Robbins Prods. The project reunites Gooding with Tollin/Robbins partners Brian Robbins and Michael Tollin as the trio is in preproduction on Revolution Studios' Radio, which Gooding will star in with Tollin directing and producing with Robbins. Cornelius, a potential starring vehicle for Gooding, centers on a repressed suburban accountant who finds out that his biological father is the head of the New York Mafia. When an attempt is made on the father's life, Cornelius ends up taking over the position.