According to Deadline, John Boyega (“Star Wars“) and two Oscar winners Robert De Niro (“The Irishman”) will meet to star in the new Netflix movie called “The Formula.”
Gerard McMurray (“The First Night of Crime“) will be in charge of the screenplay, direction and feature film.
In the plot, Boyega will play a young Formula 1 driver prodigy who is forced to work as an escape pilot to save the only family he has.
The project marks McMurray’s return to Netflix, which previously made one of the first original titles on the streaming platform, the drama “ Code of Silence. ”
Jane Rosenthal, Berry Welsh and De Niro also go into production.