Austin Butler, Tom Hardy And Jodie Comer Join Jeff Nichols’ New Film

Though it looked for a while that Mud and Take Shelter director Jeff Nichols was going to tackle a spin-off set in the A Quiet Place cinematic world

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he jumped ship because he was developing another original movie of its own. Now we know what that movie is: it's called The Bikeriders

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it has attracted a typically starry cast for Nichols' latest – Austin Butler, Tom Hardy and Jodie Comer are all aboard.

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Nichols also wrote the script for the movie, which is inspired by the photography of Danny Lyon and his 1967 book The Bikeriders

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It's an original story set in the 1960s following the rise of a fictional Midwestern motorcycle club.

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the club evolves over the course of a decade from a gathering place for local outsiders into a more sinister gang

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The cameras should be rolling this October, and production company New Regency is backing the film.

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