Dev Patel is in negotiations to star in David Lowery and A24's "Green Knight, a retelling of the medieval tale of "Sir Gawain and the Green Knight.
Patel will play the loyal Sir Gawain, a knight of King Arthur's Round Table who accepts the challenge of beheading the Green Knight. He must wait a year and a day to receive a blow in return.
Patel has Hotel Mumbai due on 3 May and is the titular lead in Armando Iannucci's The Personal History Of David Copperfield, which should also be out this year.He will appear in the Amazon Studios anthology series "Modern Love, which also stars Sofia Boutella and Olivia Cooke.
Chris Pratt's Cowboy Ninja Viking will no longer be hitting theaters in 2019.
Universal has indefinitely delayed the film and pulled it from its planned release date, The Hollywood Reporter has confirmed. The pic was in preproduction and last week cast Priyanka Chopra as its female lead as it was heading for a shoot in London next month( oct).It had been slated to open June 28, 2019.
The studio says it remains in active development and will be dated down the line "to accommodate production scheduling." Sources say the project has suffered from script issues, and rumors of a shutdown have percolated since March.
