Caleb Landry Jones, who won best actor at last year’s Cannes for “Nitram,” is set to play the lead in Luc Besson’s “DogMan.” Besson (“Lucy,” “T…
Besson penned “DogMan” and will direct it, on top of producing via his banner LBP., the company founded by Besson and now owned by New York-based Vine Alternative, is co-producing the movie.
Producers are Virginie Besson-Silla, who produced Besson’s last five films including “Lucy” as well as Guy Ritchie’s “Revolver,” and Steve Rabineau, who joined LBP in 2019 after a successful career as a top agent at WME for over three decades. The Texas native, who is also a musician, has released two albums: “The Mother Stone” and “Gadzooks Vol. 1.”
Over the last 30 years, Besson has been the primary purveyor of French-produced English-language movies worldwide and has delivered some of France’s biggest blockbusters, mostly action thrillers such as “The Professional” with Natalie Portman and Jean Reno, “La Femme Nikita” with Anne Parillaud, and most recently the Taken franchise with Liam Neeson and “Lucy” with Scarlett Johansson.