EXCLUSIVE: Lyrical Media and Embrace have sold feature package Butcher & Blackbird, a dark romance based on the bestselling novel by Brynne Weaver, to Amazon MGM Studios, for release worldwide on Prime Video.
Chris McKay, the filmmaker who directed Amazon’s Chris Pratt sci-fi actioner The Tomorrow War, is set to direct. Emma Laird (War) and Thomas Doherty (Paradise) will star.
Script is by Laura Kosann with revisions by Ari Berkowitz and Ava Tramer. Lyrical Media’s Alexander Black and Embrace will produce. Weaver and McKay will exec produce alongside Lyrical Media’s Arlen Konopaki, Jon Rosenberg, and Jonathan Faust.
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