Overview

• Paramount finalized an overall agreement for James Mangold to develop, direct and produce feature films for the studio.
• The deal follows Paramount’s August win of Mangold’s biker thriller High Side, with Timothée Chalamet attached and Jaime Oliveira adapting his own short story.
• Peter Chernin and David Ready are producing High Side for Chernin Entertainment alongside Mangold’s Turnpike Films, with the story centered on a former MotoGP racer.
• Paramount co-chairs Josh Greenstein and Dana Goldberg welcomed Mangold, and TheWrap reports this is the studio’s first filmmaker pact since completing the Skydance merger.
• Mangold remains attached to Lucasfilm’s Dawn of the Jedi and DC’s Swamp Thing, though reporting notes that timelines and deal specifics for those projects have not been disclosed.