Chris Evans Jekyll movie news: The actor, who most will know as Captain America, is focussing on starring in the lead.
Read more on the full Chris Evans Jekyll movie news below.
Chris Evans is reportedly looking at starring in the American remake of the hit UK TV series Jekyll from Steven Moffat. If true, Evans will step into the iconic character for Lionsgate, a role made famous by James Nesbitt in the original BBC show.
Here’s the plot.
It’s 2007 and there’s a new Dr Jekyll, with an old problem: Mr Hyde. But they have a deal – a body share – and an impossible life is somehow lived.
What Hyde doesn’t know, however, is that Jackman is married, and there’s a wife and two children he’ll do anything to protect from his dark side. With all the resources of modern technology, and the best surveillance hardware, he’s determined to keep his dark side in line.
He’s done a deal with his own devil. But neither of them know that an ancient organisation with limitless wealth and power is monitoring their every move, and a plan over a century in the making is coming to fruition. The return of Dr Jekyll is no accident…
The show was set in the present day, but was based on Robert Louis Stevenson’s Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde.
Deadline report the news of the potential casting. The original show aired for just one season back in 2007, and also starred Gina Bellman, Denis Lawson, Michelle Ryan and Meera Syal.
The Jekyll movie is being produced by produced by Ellen DeGeneres and Jeff Kleeman with Anthony Bagarozzi and Charles Mondry adapting the script.
Evans will next be seen in Marc Webb’s new film Gifted, before heading back to the MCU for another Avengers movie as Captain America.
More news on the Jekyll movie as it comes in.
