Alan Ritchson and Netflix have signed a first-look feature deal through Ritchson's Dancing Skeleton production banner, with an untitled MotoGP heist thriller set as the first project under the pact. Ritchson will star and produce; Chris Morgan will write the script. The news was reported by Deadline on 3 August 2026.

The film follows a crew of motorcycle thieves stealing priceless antiquities. Interpol recruits a onetime MotoGP prodigy — played by Ritchson — to hunt them down, until he discovers the ringleader may be his younger brother, long believed dead. Ritchson, Morgan, Ainsley Morgan for Chris Morgan Productions, and Joe Roth and Jeff Kirschenbaum for RK Films are producing. MotoGP, the premier class of motorcycle road racing, has signed on to consult on the film's development.

The team pitched the project internally as "Fast & Furious with motorcycles," according to Deadline. The comparison carries weight. Morgan wrote seven films in the Fast & Furious franchise, starting with the fourth instalment, and helped relaunch the series at Universal. Kirschenbaum was co-president of production at Universal and the studio's lead executive on that same Fast & Furious relaunch before moving into producing.

Ritchson arrives at the Netflix deal with a proven track record on the platform. His film War Machine reached No. 10 on Netflix's Most Popular Movies list, logging 139.9 million views in its first 91 days after premiering in March 2026. Under the first-look pact — a deal in which Netflix gets first dibs on projects Ritchson's company develops — he will star in and produce a slate of feature films for the streamer.

The MotoGP thriller is not the only Ritchson title moving at Netflix. He is set to headline Maelstrom, a Jaume Collet-Serra action film about a federal marshal guarding an arms dealer's fiancée as a hurricane traps them with incoming mercenaries. Collet-Serra, who directed the Netflix action hit Carry-On, will direct. Separately, Ritchson is leading an untitled survival competition series for Netflix, produced alongside Bunim/Murray Productions.

Dancing Skeleton, founded by Ritchson, produces original film and television projects across all platforms with a focus on what the company describes as high-impact, audience-driven storytelling. Ritchson also holds a first-look television deal with Amazon MGM Studios, under which Dancing Skeleton develops series projects — meaning the actor-producer now has feature output tied to Netflix and television development tied to Amazon's studio arm.

For Netflix, the arrangement deepens a relationship with a performer whose most recent film already cracked the platform's all-time most-watched list. For Ritchson, it moves him further from actor-for-hire into the producer's chair, with a roster of writers and executives who have built billion-dollar action franchises behind him.