Atomic Blonde Director David Leitch on Creating a New Spy Franchise

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After years as a fight coordinator, stunt coordinator and second unit director ranging from Fight Club to The Bourne Ultimatum to Captain America: Civil War, David Leitch made his directorial debut as co-director (with Chad Stahelski) on John Wick, the Keanu Reeves revenge thriller that upped the standard for action films and created a whole new and surreal cinematic universe at the same time. Now branching on his own, Leitch has directed Atomic Blonde, a spy thriller starring Charlize Theron and set in Berlin in 1989, just as the Cold War is about to end with the fall of the Berlin Wall.