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Artist International Group Signs ‘The Midnight Meat Train,’ ‘Lupin The Third’ Filmmaker Ryuhei Kitamura
Filmmaker Ryuhei Kitamura has signed with Artist International Group for management, Deadline can exclusively reveal.
First coming onto the scene in Japan with his ultra-violent zombie samurai action flick Versus, Kitamura directed his first English-language feature with the Bradley Cooper-led The Midnight Meat Train, an adaptation of the Clive Barker novel for Lakeshore Entertainment and Lionsgate. Written by Chad Law and Christopher Jolley, the English-language film will tell the story of a group of people, including two young women, who are trapped upside down on a roller coaster taken over by a mysterious saboteur threatening to drop them all one-by-one to their deaths. Actor clients include Michelle Yeoh ( Everywhere All at Once), Jonathan Rhys Meyers ( The Tudors), Anil Kapoor ( Slumdog Millionaire), Gong Li ( Mulan), Carolina Miranda ( Fake Profile), Kev Adams ( Retirement Home), Rafael Cebrian ( Acapulco), Fan Bingbing ( The 355), Rossy de Palma ( Parallel Mothers) and Zine Tseng ( 3 Body Problem).
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