‘Creed II’ Filmmaker Steven Caple Jr. to Direct YA Adaptation ‘Thieves’ Gambit’ for Lionsgate
24.06.2022 - 01:05
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and Steven Caple Jr? Please don’t wake me up from this dream. Temple Hill is one of the heaviest hitters in adapting YA, so I know ‘Thieves’ Gambit’ would have already been in brilliant hands, but add one of the most iconic studios in Hollywood, an ingenious pro like Christina, and one of the best directors in town too and it’s no wonder I’m questioning if this is reality.
Things like this don’t happen to girls like me,” Lewis said in a statement. Meredith Wieck and Jon Humphrey will oversee for Lionsgate, with Wyck Godfrey, Isaac Klausner, and Annika Patton overseeing for Temple Hill, and Christina Hodson and Morgan Howell overseeing for Hodson Exports.Robert Melnik negotiated the deal on behalf of Lionsgate.Lewis is a youth services library technician living in Shreveport, Louisiana.
She’s been working with books since she was 16, hopping from libraries to bookstores and back again. She is represented by CAA and Chelsea Eberly of the Greenhouse Literary Agency.Caple Jr.
previously directed “Creed II.” He is in post-production on “Transformers: Rise of the Beasts,” which releases in June 2023 and stars Anthony Ramos and Dominique Fishback. He is represented by CAA, Untitled Entertainment, and Hansen, Jacobson, Teller, Hoberman, Newman, Warren, Richman, Rush, Kaller, Gellman, Meigs & Fox.
Christina Hodson and Hodson Exports are represented by CAA and Kaplan/Perrone Entertainment.For the record: A previous version of this story misspelled Steven Caple Jr.’s name.
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