Clarke’s Unstoppable Ent company has
signed a first-look deal with Icon to finance, sell and distribute his films, according to
Variety.
Clarke (34) is expected to be involved in two films a year – budgeted between £3 million and £6 million – under the agreement.
Among the projects in development are
Hood3 (which, it is being speculated, may continue the story of Clarke’s re-formed character Sam Peel from
Kidulthood, to which
Adulthood is a sequel); the previously announced 2012 Olympics sports film
Fast Girls; and sci-fi noir
Reign of Death.
Clarke appeared in several series of
Doctor Who as Mickey Smith – on/off boyfriend of Doctor’s companion Rose Tyler (Billie Piper), although he ended up marrying the
next companion, Martha Jones (Freema Agyeman) – and was due to appear as the same character in
Who spin-off
Torchwood (starring John Barrowman as Captain Jack Harkness), but had to cry off because of filming commitments.
He also appeared in
Rise of the Cybermen as his alter ego from a parallel universe, Ricky Smith, and in the
Doctor Who audio series
Dalek Empire: The Fearless, produced by Big Finish, in which he played Salus Kade.
During his time on
Doctor Who, Clarke appeared with both ninth Doctor Christopher Eccleston and tenth Doctor David Tennant. He recently said that he doubted that he would be appearing opposite the eleventh Doctor Matt Smith, whose first episode,
The Eleventh Hour, was screened to around 8 million British viewers on Saturday (it
hits US screens on April 17).
“I’m not interested in sitting back and being safe,” says Clarke of his new film projects. “We will actively try to break new ground with what we do out of the UK for our home-grown audience and for an increasingly important international one also.”
Clarke’s heist movie,
4.3.2.1, which he directed, opens on June 2 and stars Emma Roberts, Tamsin Egerton, Ophelia Lovibond and Shanika Warren-Markland.
