The romantic thriller was pitched in as a spec script and will also star Anthony Mackie in the lead role alongside Chopra.

Amazon Studios has won the bid to distribute an upcoming romantic thriller, Ending Things starring Priyanka Chopra Jonas and Anthony Mackie. The film was pitched in as a spec script by Kevin Sullivan in a competition, wherein Amazon emerged as the winner. According to Deadline, the film features a “True Lies-Esque” story of a romance between an assassin and her partner in crime.

The film was under the eyes of several studios for a while and gained momentum after Mackie and Chopra Jonas signed on to portray the two leads in it. The film will be a joint production between Inspire Entertainment’s Jason Spire, Davis Entertainment’s Jeremy Stein, Lit Entertainment, and Anthony Mackie through his Make It With Gravy Productions. Priyanka Chopra Jonas will also serve as an executive producer. Earlier Spire and Mackie have collaborated on Outside The Wire in which Mackie also played the lead role.

The film follows an assassin portrayed by Priyanka Chopra Jonas, who decides to quit this business and asks for an out. But that also means breaking things off with her partner, presumably portrayed by Mackie. However, as time passes, she realizes her love for her partner, but still does not want to do anything with the business. As ‘ending things’ with her partner becomes more and more difficult, the duo unites for one last assignment, that shall put their love to an ultimate complex test.

Priyanka Chopra Jonas has already been working on a global event series Citadel for Amazon Studios and has produced Evil Eye for them, under a first-look deal she has with Amazon for making global TV productions. She is also awaiting the release of her romantic drama Text For You. Besides having more than a successful career in India, Chopra Jonas has featured in some of the biggest films recently such as The Matrix Resurrections and The White Tiger, which she also produced. The White Tiger was nominated for an Oscar in the Best Adapted Screenplay category. Her stint in the U.S. started with Quantico, a spy-thriller series in which she portrayed the lead. She then appeared in Baywatch, A Kid Like Jake, and We Can Be Heroes. She also appeared in the documentary Chasing Happiness, about her husband Nick Jonas and his brothers’ music career.

On the other hand, Mackie is known for his portrayal of Falcon in the Marvel Cinematic Universe. He gained further recognition for his role in Altered Carbon, Synchronic, and The Woman in the Window. He reprised his role of Sam Wilson/Falcon to critical acclaim in The Falcon and The Winter Soldier, which led Marvel Studios to rope him in for the fourth Captain America film set in the MCU. He is also set to appear in the series adaptation of Twisted Metal.

Besides penning the screenplay, Kevin Sullivan is also directing Ending Things. No other details of the film are revealed yet, but after finding such a great production team, more info on its progress shall come out soon.

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