Netflix is bidding high! The global streaming giant recently announced its most financially ambitious feature franchise, The Gray Man starring Chris Evans and Ryan Gosling, under the direction of Avengers: Endgame fame Joe & Anthony Russo. The project is said to be mounted on a James Bond-level of scale with a budget upward of $200 Million. A few days before this announcement, Netflix had unveiled 17 Originals for India to release this year, comprising from Karan Johar's Gunjan Saxena, Anurag Basu's Ludo to Nawazuddin Siddiqui's Serious Men and Mira Nair's A Suitable Boy.
Now, Netflix is upping the ante further in India with a huge deal with one of the biggest Bollywood stars. Peepingmoon.com has exclusively learned that Netflix is in advance talks with Aamir Khan for a multi-project deal. The Netflix bosses are apparently in discussion with Aamir for the last six months to ink a multi-year deal to create a film and three web shows exclusively for Netflix under his home production, Aamir Khan Films. The exclusive content partnership hasn't materialized yet but sources close to the development have revealed that they're getting closer and it's a matter of time they lock this huge deal.
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It's yet unclear which projects Aamir has in store for Netflix as they have kept the deal details strictly under wraps. Sources indicate that Aamir's most ambitious Mahabharata project which the actor had put on hold to divert his attention to Laal Singh Chaddha could also be a part of the deal. K.V. Vijayendra Prasad who penned India's biggest ever motion picture, Bahubali is reportedly writing the screenplay and he's expected to complete the script by early next year.
Netflix has already signed an exclusive output deal with Karan Johar and Viacom18 Studio's respective digital arms, Dharmatic Entertainment and Tipping Point, and its partnerships with Aamir, when finalized, could possibly be the biggest of them all.
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