The Russo Brothers in Talks to Direct Cherry After Avengers 4

According to Deadline, the Russo Brothers are looking into their next directorial effort after Avengers 4, which will based on the book Cherry. The film is an adaptation of first-time author Nico Walker‘s book of the same name. The book is described as follows.

The book has been called Jesus’ Son meets Reservoir Dogs, a breakneck-paced debut novel about love, war, bank robberies, and heroin. A young man from an affluent family marries his hometown girlfriend before joining the Army and shipping out to Iraq. An Army medic, he is unprepared for the grisly reality that awaits him, and the rough-and-tumble nature of his fellow soldiers who smoke, huff computer duster, take painkillers, watch porn, and get gruesomely injured all too regularly. By the time the soldier returns home, his PTSD rages, he’s soon on drugs and in debt, and he finds an outlet in knocking off banks, a pursuit that forces him to focus and makes him feel the way he did in pressure combat situations. Walker robbed about a dozen banks and stole close to $40,000 over four months, before finally getting caught in 2011.

Joe and Anthony Russo’s studio AGBO has moved into an exclusive negotiation for the rights to the book and made a $1 million outright buy. Per the report, they are looking to make this film the next one they direct following the release of the fourth Avengers movie.

Jessica Goldberg is currently attached to adapt the novel in script form.