David Leitch And 87North Set Action Movie Fight At Universal

It’s been a fortnight now since we got official word that the Academy are set to finally recognise the stunt community at the 2028 Oscars with a fresh award for Stunt Design. Fast forward to now, and Deadline is reporting that 87North filmmaker David Leitch, whose 2024 ode to stuntmen The Fall Guy may well have given the Academy the final push it needed to get in on the action, er, action, has set a fresh veritable stuntapalooza called Fight at Universal.

Spawned from a spec script by Tales From The Loop and Legion scribe Nathaniel Halpern, Fight‘s plot details and shooting/release plans are being kept under wraps for the time being. But given Leitch, 87North, and Leitch’s longtime producer Kelly McCormick’s involvement in the project — as well as the movie’s blunt call to action title — it would be secure to assume that we’re not in for a tearjerking melodrama with this one. Rather, given McCormick and Leitch’s past 87North efforts with the likes of Nobody, Bullet Train, and the aforementioned The Fall Guy, we’re expecting this to be a quintessential Leitchian actioner, and one that could wind up coming out just in time for 2028 Oscar consideration if it gets its skates on.

Before we get to Fight however, there’s no shortage of buzzy David Leitch projects to look forward to. The director has Nicholas Hoult and Pete Davidson led, self-explanatory thriller How To Rob A Bank currently in the works, as well as Hong Kong underworld set vampire action-romance Undying Love, Andrew Garfield starring Richard Branson miniseries Hot Air, graphic novel adapting TV series Button Man, and an as yet untitled 87North x Amazon MGM Studios collaboration fronted once more by Hoult. All of which is to say that with the lights shining on Hollywood’s stunt community right now and cameras soon to roll on a whole slate of Leitch movies and show, all that’s really left to do is shout ACTION! Count. Us. In.