He’s on screen right now being heroic in Captain America, and busy reprising the role for The Avengers, but Chris Evans has apparently been offered a very different movie from the Marvel hero with Motor City.
Here’s where it gets slightly confusing. According to Twitch, B****ook of Eli co-director Allen Hughes is attached to call the shots on the film, which will be based on Chad St John’s Black List script. Except… Hughes was already attached to a script called Broken** City**, which had Mark Wahlberg interested and another Black List script driving it. Just yesterday, it was hinted that Wahlberg would be dropping out of David O Russell’s Silver Linings Playbook for scheduling reasons and switching to work on Broken City. Now? This new information throws that into doubt.
Apparently Warners is eager to have Hughes focus on Motor, with a January start date now being considered and producer Joel Silver pushing the idea of Evans as the star.
Motor City follows a small time hood who is framed and chucked in prison. When he gets out, he swears revenge on those who put him away. The most intriguing thing about St John’s screenplay? Reports have the hero only uttering one single line of dialogue. Which sounds like it could be great in concept, but likely a tough sell for a studio film.
There’s no official confirmation yet on whether Evans will even take the movie, but it’s definitely something different…