Chris Hemsworth to headline movie based mostly on Australia’s Tatts Finke Desert Race

Los Angeles: Hollywood star Chris Hemsworth is about to star in and produce a function movie based mostly on Australia’s legendary Tatts Finke Desert Race.

In line with ‘Deadline’, the Australian actor’s manufacturing banner ‘Wild State’ has inked an unique partnership with the occasion’s organisers to develop a number of tasks across the gruelling two-day motorsport competitors. The function, which is able to function a starring car for the ‘Thor’ actor, is in early improvement with Ricky Staub and Dan Walser penning the script.

‘Wild State’, which Hemsworth co-founded with Ben Grayson, can also be producing unscripted content material across the race, together with a challenge following freestyle motocross legend Robbie Maddison as he competes within the occasion for the primary time.

“Off-road racing has been a ardour in my household for a very long time and we at ‘Wild State’ are thrilled to accomplice with the Tatts Finke Desert Race on the eve of its fiftieth anniversary and convey this epic competitors to a world viewers,” Hemsworth mentioned.

The Tatts Finke Desert Race, one of many greatest annual sporting occasions in Australia’s Northern Territory, is broadly thought to be the nation’s most enjoyable off-road race. It’s thought of among the many most troublesome programs on the planet, held throughout one of many planet’s most distant terrains. The occasion will mark its fiftieth anniversary in June this yr.

By ‘Wild State’, Hemsworth has beforehand produced his ‘Disney+’ sequence ‘Limitless with Chris Hemsworth’, Netflix’s ‘Extraction’ franchise, ‘Crime 101’ and the upcoming ‘Apple’ sci-fi thriller ‘Corsair Code’.

The actor is presently filming for the third movie within the ‘Extraction’ franchise. He will likely be subsequent seen reprising the fan-favourite ‘Marvel’ superhero Thor in ‘Avengers: Doomsday’, set to be launched in theatres in December this yr.