Jared Leto To Star In Action Thriller ‘The Outsider’

[Logan0327]

http://deadline.com/2016/04/jared-leto-starring-action-thriller-the-outsider-movie-1201732428/

Jared Leto, who won an Oscar for Dallas Buyers Club, is set to star in action thriller The Outsider for director Martin Zandvliet’s (Land of Mine). Written by Andrew Baldwin (Bastille Day), the project set in post-WWII Japan is aiming to go before the cameras this fall.

The Outsider tells the story of an imprisoned American soldier (Leto) who is released with the help of his yakuza cellmate. Now free, he sets out to earn their respect and repay his debt while navigating the dangerous criminal underworld. Waypoint Entertainment will finance with Ken Kao (The Nice Guys, Knight of Cups) producing alongside John Linson (Sons of Anarchy) and Art Linson (Heat, Fight Club) under their Linson Entertainment banner. Sales, production and financing outfit Bloom is handling international sales.

The Outsider will mark Zandvliet’s English-language debut following the success of Land of Mine, which was lauded at last year’s Toronto International Film Festival and acquired by Sony Pictures as a potential awards film this year. For Leto, this will be just the second film since his Oscar-winning turn in 2013’s Dallas Buyers Club. He next will be seen as the Joker in Suicide Squad, which Warner Bros. will release August 5.

 

[Eddie Dean]

Jared Leto is poo.

 

[Hunter Rider]

The premise certainly has potential.

 

[David H.]

From Fassbender to Hardy to Leto…

 

[Eddie Dean]

Haha.

 

[Lighthouse]

I was hoping this was an HP Lovecraft adaptation.

 

[terry78]

Who thinks Leto is a downgrade? Geez, somebody needs to get off the d.

 

[Logan0327]

Who thinks Leto is a downgrade? Geez, somebody needs to get off the d.

i know right and its not like fassbender and hardy aren't in everything right lol

this would be jared's 5th movie in 10 years atleast he is fresh talent

 

[Wildcard]

I'm down for this, sounds like it could be promising.

 

[Eddie Dean]

i know right and its not like fassbender and hardy aren't in everything right lol

this would be jared's 5th movie in 10 years atleast he is fresh talent

Yeah, but Leto suuuuuuuucks.

 

[Kaleb]