Red Notice is described as belonging snugly in Johnson’s action-comedy wheelhouse, and will have a budget of somewhere between $125 million and $150 million. In addition to the $20 million going towards Johnson’s salary, another $10 million will go to secure director Rawson Marshall Thurber, who also directed Johnson’s earlier films Central Intelligence and Skyscraper, coming to theaters soon. Here’s the rest of what we know about the movie in these early stages: The Red Notice project was the subject of a pretty intense bidding war between virtually all of the major studios, and it was only won when Universal and Legendary teamed up to distribute and co-finance the film in some unspecified shared capacity. Both studios already have a relationship with Johnson, with the Fast and Furious franchise as well as its upcoming spin-off film starring The Rock and Jason Statham, and Legendary and the aforementioned Skyscraper. As for when you can expect to see Red Notice at a theater near you, the project is reportedly “on the fast track,” and is expected to begin shooting sometime next year.
