John Cena talks about starring in the Taken director’s next film Freelance

John Cena is in talks to take on his next big role in Taken director Pierre Morel’s action comedy, Freelance. The film will be put up for sale by Stuart Ford’s AGC in the upcoming US film market.

The movie follows a Special Forces operator (Cena) who decides to retire from the Army and start a family back in the States. After several years of mortgages, school absences, barbecuing in the backyard and trying to adapt to life in the suburbs, he decides to retire to take a concert that provides security for a female journalist as she interviews a cruel dictator , who may or may not have ordered the attack on him and his men. When a military coup breaks out in the middle of the interview, the three are forced to flee into the jungle, where they must survive the elements, the military and each other.

Freelance, budgeted at around $ 40 million, is set to begin filming next year in Colombia and is expected to be among the in-demand action film packages at AFM beginning on November 1st. In addition to Morel instruction, author Jacob Lentz, from Jimmy Kimmel Live!, gets his feature film debut on the project. Cena is the only casting completed at the time of writing, and further casting is still underway.

Cena is a very busy man lately after performing in Fast 9, The suicide group, and Holiday friends this year. In addition to these movies, he has HBO Max’s The peacemaker sent in January, prompting him to repeat his role from The suicide group. That’s how he wants to be Fast 10 and it was already announced that a successor to Holiday friends is started.

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