Tom Holland is continuing his relationship with Sony Pictures,as the star’s newly launched production company has inked a producing deal with the studio.
Sony announced Thursday that the studio has partnered with Billy17, the banner that Holland recently co-founded with brother Harry Holland and Will South. The pact kicks off with Burnt, which the Billy17 team has been developing with Rodney Rothman writing the script as a potential starring vehicle for Tom Holland. Plot details have not yet been shared.
Billy17 is also working with Sony on adapting author Graeme Simsion’s novel The Rosie Project for TriStar Pictures. Matt Tolmach serves as a producer alongside Michael Costigan of Jason Bateman’s production company Aggregate Films.
Additionally, Billy17 is working with Spider-Man producer Amy Pascal on an adaptation of author Teddy Wayne’s novel The Winner. Holland is also being eyed to star.
“I’ve had an incredibly happy and successful relationship with Sony Pictures for almost a decade, so they felt like the perfect partner to launch our production company with,” Tom Holland said in a statement. “It’s been an ambition of mine to take this step for some time now, and we’re incredibly excited to bring entertaining, and rewatchable movies to the big screen. This is the hope for us, and it starts with Burnt, an idea which has been sitting in our heads for a few years, and having Rodney attached to pen our most ambitious project is incredible. We’re diving into the deep end here, and we’re extremely excited for what comes next.”
Added Sony Pictures chief Tom Rothman, “Tom, Harry and Will are bursting with cool ideas, and have the zeal to follow through on them. Sony is lucky as hell to be extending our already immensely successful relationship with Tom, and our ongoing work on the franchises we have together, to a new era which will take advantage of the trios producing skills, in wonderful addition to Tom’s extraordinary acting abilities. We are pushing hard on these new projects, with doubtless more to come.”
This deal follows Holland having starred for Sony in the 2022 video game adaptation Uncharted, which surpassed $400 million at the worldwide box office. Holland and Sony also teamed on director Jon Watts’ Spider-Man trilogy, with the most recent installment, 2021’s Spider-Man: No Way Home, having collected $1.9 billion globally to become the studio’s highest-grossing title.
Billy17 is represented by WME and Sloane Offer. Holland is repped by WME, Shelter PR and Sloane Offer.
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