Amblin to infuriate Keanu bros with a “female John Wick”
Lady Ghostbusters. Lady casino heisters. Lady roadhouse bouncers. Somewhere out there, seated in front of a webcam, an indignant man’s man in a vintage arcade-game T-shirt is asking what’s next, some kind of unstoppable lady hitman? Much to the horror of this hypothetical strawbro, that’s exactly what’s next. Per The Hollywood Reporter, Steven Spielberg’s Amblin Entertainment has acquired a screenplay for a project that was sold as a distaff John Wick, presumably because the male version just shot, swaggered, and gold-coin bargained its way past box-office expectations last weekend. Ruthless, as the film will be called, supposedly concerns a retired hit(wo)man who suits up for that fabled one last job. After all, she’s got a (presumably) cute daughter in a need of a nest egg after mom croaks from the terminal cancer that will prove less terminal if the movie’s a hit.