Ariana DeBose is teaming up with another recent Oscar winner – Ke Huy Quan – for the new action film With Love.
Quan, 52, who was asked to join The Academy after his big Oscar win, will team up with the 33-year-old DeBose in the project.
The project was first announced back in early January – the first leading role Quan will take after winning an Oscar for Everything Everywhere All At Once.
Now Deadline reports that DeBose – an Oscar winner herself for West Side Story – will join Quan in the Universal Picutres film.
The studio has also set a February 7, 2025 release date, which falls between Warner Bros.’ Mickey 17 with Robert Pattinson and Sony’s The Smurfs Musical.
Ariana DeBose is teaming up with another recent Oscar winner – Ke Huy Quan – for the new action film With Love
Quan, 52, who was asked to join The Academy after his big Oscar win, will team up with the 33-year-old DeBose in the project
No plot details were given for the project, though it will be written by Josh Stoddard (Warrior), Luke Passmore (Archenemy) and Matthew Murray (Sheltered).
Taking the helm will be first-time director Jonathan Eusebio, who has served as the fight coordinator on all the John Wick films and The Fall Guy, in theaters May 3.
Eusebio also served as a stunt coordinator on Violent Night, Obi-Wan Kenobi, The Matrix Resurrections, Birds of Prey, Deadpool 2 and Black Panther, to name a few.
87North founders David Leitch (The Fall Guy) and Kelly McCormack (Bullet Train) will produce the film.
No production start date has been revealed, but given the release date and the new casting, it should likely start sooner than later.
Quan started his career as a child star with his first two roles in iconic movies – Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom and The Goonies.
He went on to play Jasper Kwong in the TV series Head of the Class, though he would only work sporadically in the 1990s and 2000s after that.
The actor returned for his first role in 20 years in Finding Ohana before his Oscar-winning role as Waymond Wang in Best Picture winner Everything Everywhere All At Once.
Quan started his career as a child star with his first two roles in iconic movies – Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom and The Goonies
He went on to play Jasper Kwong in the TV series Head of the Class, though he would only work sporadically in the 1990s and 2000s after that
The actor returned for his first role in 20 years in Finding Ohana before his Oscar-winning role as Waymond Wang in Best Picture winner Everything Everywhere All At Once
DeBose is coming off Schmigadoon, I.S.S. and Wish in 2023, and she can currently be seen in theaters in the spy thriller Argylle
She’ll next be seen as the comic book character Calypso in Sony’s Kraven the Hunter alongside Aaron Taylor-Johnson, in theaters August 30
He has since gone on to star in Marvel’s Loki and Disney Plus’ American Born Chinese, while voicing Han in Kung Fu Panda 4, currently in theaters.
Quan is also attached to star in The Russo Brothers’ film The Electric State alongside Millie Bobby Brown, Chris Pratt and Stanely Tucci.
DeBose is coming off Schmigadoon, I.S.S. and Wish in 2023, and she can currently be seen in theaters in the spy thriller Argylle.
She’ll next be seen as the comic book character Calypso in Sony’s Kraven the Hunter alongside Aaron Taylor-Johnson, in theaters August 30.