Tom Holland has officially launched his new production company Billy17 alongside his brother Harry Holland and Will South. The group has signed a production deal with Sony Pictures and the trio is set to release an original project together to kick off the partnership.
Under Billy17, the trio have been developing a film titled Burnt. Academy Award winner Rodney Rothman is set to pen the script, but so far, the plot details have been kept under wraps. The film is expected to see Tom Holland star. Tom and his team at Billy17 are also set to be producing an adaptation of Graeme Simsion’s bestselling novel The Rosie Project with Sony Pictures. Alongside Amy Pascal, Billy17 will also be producing an adaptation of The Winner, a novel by Teddy Wayne which also has Tom attached to starring.
In an official statement, Tom Holland said, “I’ve had an incredibly happy and successful relationship with Sony Pictures for almost a decade, so they felt like the perfect partner to launch our production company with.” He added, “It’s been an ambition of mine to take this step for some time now, and we’re incredibly excited to bring entertaining, and rewatchable movies to the big screen. This is the hope for us, and it starts with Burnt, an idea which has been sitting in our heads for a few years, and having Rodney attached to pen our most ambitious project is incredible. We’re diving into the deep end here, and we’re extremely excited for what comes next.”
Tom Rothman, Sony Pictures’ Motion Picture Group chairman and CEO said, “Tom, Harry, and Will are bursting with cool ideas, and have the zeal to follow through on them. Sony is lucky as hell to be extending our already immensely successful relationship with Tom, and our ongoing work on the franchises we have together, to a new era which will take advantage of the trios producing skills, in wonderful addition to Tom’s extraordinary acting abilities. We are pushing hard on these new projects, with doubtless more to come.”
