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 director Jaume Collet-Serra has emerged as frontrunner choice to direct

, the next installment of the 2016 Warner Bros DC film that grossed $745 million worldwide. The studio looked at a number of filmmakers — Mel Gibson among them — but sources said the studio is focused on Collet-Serra to take the reins of a franchise that has Will Smith and Margot Robbie back in the ensemble.

Annapurna & Mark Boal Set Jaume Collet-Serra To Direct 'Waco' Movie About 1993 FBI Siege

The original, written and directed by David Ayer, was about a group of incorrigible jailbirds with special skills who were conscripted to fight terrible villains with the idea the heroes were expendable. The first film wasn’t a favorite of the fanboy crowd, but it a big global financial hit for the studio that left no doubt of future installments.

Collet-Serra, the Spanish director who broke into Hollywood with the genre hit 

 and has upcoming the 2018 Liam Neeson starrer 

He is in high demand and recently became attached to Annapurna’s 

’ Marc Haimes about the 1993 standoff between the FBI and Texas state law enforcement and the David Koresh-led Branch Davidians that turned the sleepy town of Elk, just outside of Waco, into a battle zone. A 51-day standoff ended with 76 people dead as the cult’s compound was engulfed by a raging fire.

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They need a solid script, until that is in place the director doesn’t really matter.

Don’t they usually toss out the script and start over when a new director comes on board? It sounds like they are completely rewriting the script for The Batman now that Matt Reeves is directing The Batman. Also it seem like they went with a whole new script for Wonder Woman when Patty Jenkins was chosen to direct compared to the Joss Whedon script. So it sort of seems like any previous script is irrelevant and getting the director is the most important step.

Better than Ayer who ruined that thing

He ruined it so badly that he is going Sirens now instead…. LOL.

Is any studio saving any surprise announcements for Comic Con International??

Mel Gibson would’ve been such a more interesting choice. Say what you want about the man, but he knows how to direct action. The Shallows was fairly average and Non-Stop was very ridiculous, neither were as good as David Ayer’s pre-Suicide Squad movie Fury, so it’s hard to get too excited about this.

The first one was nigh unwatchable so anything will be an improvement.

Seems like a waste to sign anyone promising to take over this franchise, as the quality of the first, awful installment compared to its gross showed that fans don’t care if they even get a coherent film.

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