Los Angeles, Aug. 8 -- In a bold opening salvo mere hours into their stewardship, Paramount Pictures' freshly instated co-chairs Dana Goldberg and Josh Greenstein have ignited the studio's slate by clinching one of the industry's most sought-after packages, "High Side", a pulse-pounding thriller reuniting auteur James Mangold with Oscar-nominated star Timothee Chalamet.
Conceived from an as-yet-unpublished original work by Jaime Oliveira, who also undertakes the screenplay adaptation, "High Side" is described as a kinetic fusion of "Heat" and "Hell or High Water", imbued with the elegiac, blue-collar lyricism of a Bruce Springsteen ballad about fractured brotherhood, reports DEADLINE.
Chalamet will play a former MotoGP racer, haunted by a...