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Vanessa Hudgens is set to star alongside Mads Mikkelsen in the upcoming action spy thriller film The Black Kaiser, which will be directed by Derrick Borte (Unhinged).
The project is based on the Dark Horse graphic novel Polar by Victor Santos and the script for the film was written by Jayson Rothwell. In the story, “the Black Kaiser (Mikkelsen), the world’s most lethal hitman, uncovers a deadly conspiracy protecting a powerful syndicate of killers, and becomes their No. 1 target.”
Here’s the description from the graphic novel:
Ripped out of retirement by an assassination attempt, the world’s most deadly spy – the former agent known as Black Kaiser – is a wanted man that’s wanted… dead! On a collision course with his former employer, the Damocles Agency, Black Kaiser goes head-to-head with a stab-happy, psychotic torture expert and a seductive-but-deadly redhead. His mission only ends if he dies or kills everyone out to get him… and he’s not in the habit of dying. A guns-blazing espionage action-adventure in the grand tradition of Jim Steranko and Frank Miller, this graphic novel by Victor Santos (Mice Templar, Filthy Rich) is a brutal, fast-tempo story of revenge that Newsarama says is “as ice-cold as its name.” It was originally a silent webcomic, but Santos has crafted a script as hardboiled and intriguing as his art for this hardcover collection.
The project is a Constantin Film, JB Pictures, and Dark Horse Entertainment production and it is being produced by Jeremy Bolt and Robert Kulzer, two of the producers behind the Resident Evil franchise. The film is set to shoot this fall.