Miles Teller To Star In Copperhead Thriller From John Swab, Black Label Media

EXCLUSIVE: Miles Teller (Michael) has inked a deal to star in Copperhead, a new thriller from King Ivory helmer John Swab and Black Label Media.

Written by Chad Feehan and J. Todd Scott, Copperhead‘s plot is thrust in motion when an undercover drug deal explodes into violence in West Texas. A veteran detective is then forced to team with a young federal agent to unravel the conspiracy within their elite task force.

Black Label is financing and producing alongside Teller’s Lime Tree Productions and Swab’s Milk Boy, with production to kick off in August.

Most recently seen playing John Branca, executor of the Michael Jackson estate, in Antoine Fuqua’s Michael, which shattered opening-weekend records with a $217 million worldwide debut and is nearing $900M worldwide, Teller will next be seen starring alongside Adam Driver and Scarlett Johansson in James Gray’s Paper Tiger, which premiered to critical acclaim at Cannes and will be released by Neon. He is repped by CAA and Goodman, Genow, Schenkman.

Swab is best known for writing and directing the action thriller King Ivory, starring James Badge Dale, which premiered at the 81st Venice Film Festival. Currently, he’s attached to direct the Will Smith starrer Fast & Loose for Netflix, with Jerry Bruckheimer producing. Upcoming, he also intends to direct his screenplay Hells Angels, based on the book Hell’s Angel: The Life and Times of Sonny Barger and the Hell’s Angels Motorcycle Club, for actor/producer Jason Momoa. Then, there’s his original script Night Work, which he’ll direct for Netflix, with Mark Wahlberg to star and produce alongside Alex Heineman and Andrew Rona. Swab is repped by WME, Range Media Partners and Jackoway Austen Tyerman.

Black Label Media is known for projects like Lynne Ramsay’s Cannes drama Die My Love, starring Jennifer Lawrence and Robert Pattinson, as well as Sicario, I Wanna Dance with Somebody, Only the Brave, and others. Next up, the company will reteam with J.D. Dillard — director of the Korean War naval officer flick Devotion â€” for The Strange, which has casting underway. They’re also gearing up on Reenactment â€” marking a reunion with Reptile filmmaker Grant Singer — as well as Sicario 3.

Feehan is repped by CAA, Untitled Entertainment, and Goodman, Genow, Schenkman; his co-writer Scott by Rain, Curtis Brown, and Fuse Literary.