Hot Package: Jeremy Allen White Offered Lead In Ben Stiller-Directed Crime Drama ‘The Seven Five’
Amazon MGM Studios is moving forward with its narrative adaptation of the 2014 documentary The Seven Five by Tiller Russell. After years in development, it may have finally found its lead actor in Jeremy Allen White.
Jeff Sneider, who first broke the news about the project back in late 2020 for Collider, reported on Monday via his newsletter that White has been offered the lead in The Seven Five, which Ben Stiller plans to direct. The story is set in 1980s NYC and follows a corrupt police precinct. In 1987, its leader, Michael Dowd, was arrested, along with other dirty cops who stole money and drugs, and served 14 years in prison. This served as an exposé on other cases of corruption across NYPD.
Jeremy Allen White is currently filming back-to-back seasons of FX’s The Bear, for which he became one of TV’s hottest actors. But he’s also making a slow transition into features. Last year’s Fingernails by Apple was a good example of the Emmy winner dipping his toes in that water, but his big breakout will probably be playing Bruce Springsteen in the upcoming biopic Deliver Me From Nowhere, which was set up at 20th Century earlier this month.
Production on that project is set to commence in the fall, the studio confirmed, with Sneider adding that The Seven Five would go up in Q1 2025. Stiller is currently busy working on season 2 of Apple’s Severance.
As far as the script goes, Sneider also pointed out that Oscar nominee Tony McNamara, who most recently worked with Yorgos Lanthimos on The Favourite and Poor Things, was once supposed to take a crack at the script, but it’s unknown if that went anywhere. More details may be announced later on.
Miguel Fernández is a Spanish student that has movies as his second passion in life. His favorite movie of all time is The Lord of the Rings, but he is also a huge Star Wars fan. However, fantasy movies are not his only cup of tea, as authors like Scorsese, Fincher, Kubrick or Hitchcock have been an obsession for him since he started to understand the language of filmmaking. He is that guy who will watch a black and white movie, just because it is in black and white.
