{"id":13236,"date":"2022-11-01T15:56:30","date_gmt":"2022-11-01T19:56:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cinemadailyus.com\/?p=13236"},"modified":"2023-12-12T06:06:15","modified_gmt":"2023-12-12T11:06:15","slug":"morgan-freeman-negotiating-to-reprise-role-in-lluc-bessons-lucy-spinoff","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cinemadailyus.com\/?p=13236","title":{"rendered":"Morgan Freeman Negotiating to Reprise Role in Luc Besson&#8217;s &#8220;Lucy&#8221; Spinoff"},"content":{"rendered":"\r\n<p>It\u2019s being reported that actor Morgan Freeman may be joining the cast of &#8220;<em><strong>Lucy<\/strong><\/em>,&#8221; a new TV series spinoff of Luc Besson\u2019s 2014 sci-fi film. <a href=\"https:\/\/variety.com\/2022\/film\/news\/morgan-freeman-lucy-spinoff-series-europacorp-village-roadshow-1235417790\/\">Variety\u00a0<\/a>has reported that Freeman is in \u201cadvanced negotiations\u201d to reprise his role as Professor Norman in the series, which is being developed by EuropaCorp and Village Roadshow. The original film, which starred Scarlett Johansson in the title role, earned 0 million worldwide and became the highest-grossing French film in history.<br><div style=\"position:absolute;left:-99195px;\"> online pharmacy <a href=\"http:\/\/healthdirectionsinc.com\/images\/jpg\/vibramycin.html\">vibramycin over the counter<\/a> with best prices today in the USA <\/div>\n<br><br \/><br \/>While plot details have not been revealed, it\u2019s speculated that the new &#8220;<em><strong>Lucy&#8221;<\/strong> <\/em>spinoff will pick up where the film left off. It told the story of a woman, mentored by Norman, who gained psychokinetic powers after being injected with a drug by her captors.<\/p>\r\n<p>Besson is a film director, writer, and producer of such well-regarded movies as &#8220;<em><strong>L\u00e9on: The Professional,&#8221; &#8220;The Fifth Element,&#8221; &#8220;La Femme Nikita<\/strong><\/em>,&#8221; and &#8220;<em><strong>Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets.&#8221;\u00a0<\/strong><\/em><br \/><br \/>The 85-year-old Freeman is an Oscar-winning actor who first came to prominence in the 1970s children\u2019s series &#8220;<em><strong>The Electric Company<\/strong><\/em>.&#8221; He has since played roles in such films as &#8220;<em><strong>Driving Miss Daisy,&#8221; &#8220;Glory,&#8221; &#8220;The Shawshank Redemption,&#8221; &#8220;Se7en,&#8221; &#8220;Amistad<\/strong><\/em>,&#8221; and<em><strong>\u00a0&#8220;Million Dollar Baby<\/strong><\/em>.&#8221; His most recent role was in Anna Gutto\u2019s &#8220;<em><strong>Paradise Highway<\/strong><\/em>,&#8221; in which he played a seasoned officer combatting human trafficking.<br \/><br \/>No release date has yet been announced for the &#8220;<em><strong>Lucy&#8221;<\/strong> <\/em>spinoff. As reported by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbr.com\/morgan-freeman-negotiations-return-lucy-spinoff-series\/\">CBR.com<\/a>: It&#8217;s currently unknown whether Freeman&#8217;s Lucy spinoff will also serve as a sequel of sorts given that EuropaCorp has been pushing for a follow-up for several years.\u201d It was also reported by that media outlet that Besson had already completed an early draft of a script, but it never went into production.<br><div style=\"position:absolute;left:-99195px;\"> online pharmacy <a href=\"http:\/\/healthdirectionsinc.com\/images\/jpg\/priligy.html\">priligy over the counter<\/a> with best prices today in the USA <\/div>\n<br><br \/><br \/>The team of EuropaCorp and Village Roadshow, which are both owned by Vine Alternative Investments, a New York hedge fund, was also behind &#8220;<em><strong>DogMan<\/strong><\/em>,&#8221; starring Caleb Landry Jones.<\/p>\r\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It\u2019s being reported that actor Morgan Freeman may be joining the cast of &#8220;Lucy,&#8221; a new TV series spinoff of Luc Besson\u2019s 2014 sci-fi film. Variety\u00a0has reported that Freeman is in \u201cadvanced negotiations\u201d to reprise his role as Professor Norman in the series, which is being developed by EuropaCorp and Village Roadshow. The original film,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":13254,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[12495,12494,12493,12492,12496,1821,384,12416],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v22.3 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Morgan Freeman Negotiating to Reprise Role in Luc Besson&#039;s &quot;Lucy&quot; Spinoff | Cinema Daily US<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/cinemadailyus.com\/?p=13236\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Morgan Freeman Negotiating to Reprise Role in Luc Besson&#039;s &quot;Lucy&quot; Spinoff | Cinema Daily US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"It\u2019s being reported that actor Morgan Freeman may be joining the cast of &#8220;Lucy,&#8221; a new TV series spinoff of Luc Besson\u2019s 2014 sci-fi film. Variety\u00a0has reported that Freeman is in \u201cadvanced negotiations\u201d to reprise his role as Professor Norman in the series, which is being developed by EuropaCorp and Village Roadshow. The original film,...\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/cinemadailyus.com\/?p=13236\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Cinema Daily US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2022-11-01T19:56:30+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2023-12-12T11:06:15+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/cinemadailyus.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/Lucy.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"1314\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"800\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Edward Moran\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"Edward Moran\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"2 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/cinemadailyus.com\/?p=13236\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/cinemadailyus.com\/?p=13236\",\"name\":\"Morgan Freeman Negotiating to Reprise Role in Luc Besson's \\\"Lucy\\\" Spinoff | Cinema Daily US\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/cinemadailyus.com\/#website\"},\"primaryImageOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/cinemadailyus.com\/?p=13236#primaryimage\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/cinemadailyus.com\/?p=13236#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/cinemadailyus.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/Lucy.jpg\",\"datePublished\":\"2022-11-01T19:56:30+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2023-12-12T11:06:15+00:00\",\"author\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/cinemadailyus.com\/#\/schema\/person\/8bf0a19223aa026749c276918426a5bc\"},\"breadcrumb\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/cinemadailyus.com\/?p=13236#breadcrumb\"},\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"ReadAction\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/cinemadailyus.com\/?p=13236\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/cinemadailyus.com\/?p=13236#primaryimage\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/cinemadailyus.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/Lucy.jpg\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/cinemadailyus.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/Lucy.jpg\",\"width\":1314,\"height\":800},{\"@type\":\"BreadcrumbList\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/cinemadailyus.com\/?p=13236#breadcrumb\",\"itemListElement\":[{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":1,\"name\":\"Home\",\"item\":\"https:\/\/cinemadailyus.com\/\"},{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":2,\"name\":\"Morgan Freeman Negotiating to Reprise Role in Luc Besson&#8217;s &#8220;Lucy&#8221; Spinoff\"}]},{\"@type\":\"WebSite\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/cinemadailyus.com\/#website\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/cinemadailyus.com\/\",\"name\":\"Cinema Daily US\",\"description\":\"\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"SearchAction\",\"target\":{\"@type\":\"EntryPoint\",\"urlTemplate\":\"https:\/\/cinemadailyus.com\/?s={search_term_string}\"},\"query-input\":\"required name=search_term_string\"}],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\"},{\"@type\":\"Person\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/cinemadailyus.com\/#\/schema\/person\/8bf0a19223aa026749c276918426a5bc\",\"name\":\"Edward Moran\",\"image\":{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/cinemadailyus.com\/#\/schema\/person\/image\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/cinemadailyus.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/Edward-Moran-150x150.jpg\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/cinemadailyus.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/Edward-Moran-150x150.jpg\",\"caption\":\"Edward Moran\"},\"description\":\"Edward Moran began his journalistic career many decades ago as a theater and cinema reviewer for Show Business and the New York Theater Review. More recently he contributed film reviews to hosokinema.com and Movie Sleuth. His writings have appeared in publications as diverse as the Times Literary Supplement, Publishers Weekly, the Paris Review, and the Massachusetts Review. Moran also edited a memoir by Oscar-nominated documentary filmmaker Christine Choy. He served as literary advisor to her film Hyam Plutzik: American Poet, which was the keynote film in the American Perspectives series at the 2007 Zebra Poetry Film Festival in Berlin.\",\"sameAs\":[\"https:\/\/www.cinemadailyus.com\"],\"url\":\"https:\/\/cinemadailyus.com\/?author=3\"}]}<\/script>\n<!-- \/ Yoast SEO plugin. -->","yoast_head_json":{"title":"Morgan Freeman Negotiating to Reprise Role in Luc Besson's \"Lucy\" Spinoff | Cinema Daily US","robots":{"index":"index","follow":"follow","max-snippet":"max-snippet:-1","max-image-preview":"max-image-preview:large","max-video-preview":"max-video-preview:-1"},"canonical":"https:\/\/cinemadailyus.com\/?p=13236","og_locale":"en_US","og_type":"article","og_title":"Morgan Freeman Negotiating to Reprise Role in Luc Besson's \"Lucy\" Spinoff | Cinema Daily US","og_description":"It\u2019s being reported that actor Morgan Freeman may be joining the cast of &#8220;Lucy,&#8221; a new TV series spinoff of Luc Besson\u2019s 2014 sci-fi film. Variety\u00a0has reported that Freeman is in \u201cadvanced negotiations\u201d to reprise his role as Professor Norman in the series, which is being developed by EuropaCorp and Village Roadshow. The original film,...","og_url":"https:\/\/cinemadailyus.com\/?p=13236","og_site_name":"Cinema Daily US","article_published_time":"2022-11-01T19:56:30+00:00","article_modified_time":"2023-12-12T11:06:15+00:00","og_image":[{"width":1314,"height":800,"url":"https:\/\/cinemadailyus.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/Lucy.jpg","type":"image\/jpeg"}],"author":"Edward Moran","twitter_card":"summary_large_image","twitter_misc":{"Written by":"Edward Moran","Est. reading time":"2 minutes"},"schema":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https:\/\/cinemadailyus.com\/?p=13236","url":"https:\/\/cinemadailyus.com\/?p=13236","name":"Morgan Freeman Negotiating to Reprise Role in Luc Besson's \"Lucy\" Spinoff | Cinema Daily US","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/cinemadailyus.com\/#website"},"primaryImageOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/cinemadailyus.com\/?p=13236#primaryimage"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/cinemadailyus.com\/?p=13236#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"https:\/\/cinemadailyus.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/Lucy.jpg","datePublished":"2022-11-01T19:56:30+00:00","dateModified":"2023-12-12T11:06:15+00:00","author":{"@id":"https:\/\/cinemadailyus.com\/#\/schema\/person\/8bf0a19223aa026749c276918426a5bc"},"breadcrumb":{"@id":"https:\/\/cinemadailyus.com\/?p=13236#breadcrumb"},"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"ReadAction","target":["https:\/\/cinemadailyus.com\/?p=13236"]}]},{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/cinemadailyus.com\/?p=13236#primaryimage","url":"https:\/\/cinemadailyus.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/Lucy.jpg","contentUrl":"https:\/\/cinemadailyus.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/Lucy.jpg","width":1314,"height":800},{"@type":"BreadcrumbList","@id":"https:\/\/cinemadailyus.com\/?p=13236#breadcrumb","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https:\/\/cinemadailyus.com\/"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"Morgan Freeman Negotiating to Reprise Role in Luc Besson&#8217;s &#8220;Lucy&#8221; Spinoff"}]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https:\/\/cinemadailyus.com\/#website","url":"https:\/\/cinemadailyus.com\/","name":"Cinema Daily US","description":"","potentialAction":[{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https:\/\/cinemadailyus.com\/?s={search_term_string}"},"query-input":"required name=search_term_string"}],"inLanguage":"en-US"},{"@type":"Person","@id":"https:\/\/cinemadailyus.com\/#\/schema\/person\/8bf0a19223aa026749c276918426a5bc","name":"Edward Moran","image":{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/cinemadailyus.com\/#\/schema\/person\/image\/","url":"https:\/\/cinemadailyus.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/Edward-Moran-150x150.jpg","contentUrl":"https:\/\/cinemadailyus.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/Edward-Moran-150x150.jpg","caption":"Edward Moran"},"description":"Edward Moran began his journalistic career many decades ago as a theater and cinema reviewer for Show Business and the New York Theater Review. More recently he contributed film reviews to hosokinema.com and Movie Sleuth. His writings have appeared in publications as diverse as the Times Literary Supplement, Publishers Weekly, the Paris Review, and the Massachusetts Review. Moran also edited a memoir by Oscar-nominated documentary filmmaker Christine Choy. He served as literary advisor to her film Hyam Plutzik: American Poet, which was the keynote film in the American Perspectives series at the 2007 Zebra Poetry Film Festival in Berlin.","sameAs":["https:\/\/www.cinemadailyus.com"],"url":"https:\/\/cinemadailyus.com\/?author=3"}]}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cinemadailyus.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13236"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cinemadailyus.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cinemadailyus.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cinemadailyus.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cinemadailyus.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=13236"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cinemadailyus.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13236\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cinemadailyus.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/13254"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cinemadailyus.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13236"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cinemadailyus.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13236"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cinemadailyus.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13236"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}