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Deadline-Launched Teaser Trailer ‘The Prototype’ Hatches Berlin-Bound Pic Package

By MIKE FLEMING JR | Friday February 1, 2013 @ 9:46am PSTTags: Andrew Will, Bandito Brothers, FilmNation, The Prototype
Mike Fleming

EXCLUSIVE: What started as a cool teaser trailer on Deadline has turned into a full-fledged movie package that will be shopped hard at Berlin next week. Andrew Will has written and will direct The Prototype, a sci-fi thriller that will be produced by Will and Shawn Wallace of Variant Films, Sean Cushing of Cantina Creative and Max Leitman of Bandito Brothers. This is being put together in a similar fashion that the Bandito Brothers employed when it did Act Of Valor, the $12 million film that has grossed over $80 million. FilmNation is financing, and Glen Basner will be in Berlin next week selling international rights. WME Global’s Graham Taylor will be spearheading the domestic deal.

We run a lot of trailers on this site, and agency parodies that have gotten jobs and representation for actors and directors, but this is a new one for Deadline. Since we broke this trailer in June, it spread to YouTube, where it has gotten more than 10.5 million views and became a web phenomenon. It was around the seventh-most-viewed trailer on the site last year. Considering it was a trailer for a movie that didn’t exist, with no big stars to speak of, and with no marketing, that’s pretty good. But it’s also a pretty cool trailer. Here it is again:

Watch the video on YouTube.

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FilmNation Stakes Bandito Brothers On Thriller ‘The Prototype’

By MIKE FLEMING JR | Wednesday September 19, 2012 @ 1:50pm PDTTags: Act of Valor, Andrew Will, Bandito Brothers, Big Deals Film, FilmNation, The Prototype
Mike Fleming

EXCLUSIVE: FilmNation Entertainment will provide financing for The Prototype, an action thriller written and directed by Andrew Will (Archangel) and produced by Bandito Brothers in much the same maverick fashion as they generated Act Of Valor.  FilmNation will handle international sales, and Bandito Brothers’ Max Leitman will produce with Shawn Wallace and Will of Variant Films, and Sean Cushing.

Deadline first caught wind of this project back in late June, when the short film by Will leaked when it was being shopped by WME Global. The Prototype is an experimental drone soldier that is being hunted by the FBI’s elite Critical Incident Response Group after it escapes from a top-secret military base and goes on the run. It’s based on a short film by the writer-director. It’s an under-$40 million film somewhat likened to District 9, with casting getting underway. Read More »

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Comic-Con: ‘Act Of Valor’s Scott Waugh To Helm ‘Hawken’

By MIKE FLEMING JR | Saturday July 14, 2012 @ 4:59pm PDTTags: Bandito Brothers, Comic-Con, Comic-Con Wrap-Up, Scott Waugh, Warner Bros
Mike Fleming

Act Of Valor co-director Scott Waugh has signed on to direct a live action adaptation of Hawken, a free-to-play shooter game from Meteor Entertainment that started creating buzz at E3. Warner Bros has signed on to make the … Read More »

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Samuel Goldwyn Picks Up Bandito Brothers’ ‘Waiting For Lightning’

By THE DEADLINE TEAM | Wednesday June 27, 2012 @ 4:24pm PDTTags: Bandito Brothers, Big Deals Film, Samuel Goldwyn Films, SXSW

Los Angeles, CA -June 27, 2012 – Samuel Goldwyn Films is proud to announce, as the X Games kick-off, that it is has acquired all U.S. rights to Bandito Brothers’ Waiting For Lightning. The SXSW fan favorite and rousing documentary follows skateboarding legend and action sports pioneer Danny Way on his journey to jump China’s Great Wall, and reveals the passion, grit, determination and psyche behind one of the world’s greatest athletes. Goldwyn plans a Fall 2012 release.

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‘Act Of Valor’s Bandito Brothers Moves To ‘God’s Gulch’

By MIKE FLEMING JR | Friday March 2, 2012 @ 4:00pm PSTTags: Act of Valor, Bandito Brothers
Mike Fleming

EXCLUSIVE:  Bandito Brothers has set up another feature project to follow Act of Valor. Mike “Mouse” McCoy, who co-directed that Relativity Media-released drama with Scott Waugh, will direct God’s Gulch, a drama that that Brooks McClaren will write, based on … Read More »

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After Navy SEAL Pic ‘Act Of Valor,’ Bandito Brothers Rev ‘High Speed’ Racing Pic

By MIKE FLEMING JR | Thursday February 16, 2012 @ 4:41pm PSTTags: Act of Valor, Bandito Brothers, Navy SEALs, Scott Waugh
Mike Fleming

EXCLUSIVE: Bandito Brothers, the production partnership that produced and financed the upcoming Navy SEAL action drama Act of Valor, will target underground racing for their next big film. Scott Waugh, who co-directed Act of Valor, will helm High Speed, a gritty, … Read More »

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