"Ron Brinkerhoff has been tapped to write Warner Bros. Pictures' "Fort Knox," an action-heist movie that Basil Iwanyk's Thunder Road Pictures is producin. The story line, which is being kept close to the vest, deals with a team of specialists that is hired to break in to the impenetrable Fort Knox. The project is based on a pitch by Segars ("National Treasure")..." (full details)
"Paramount has tapped Keir Pearson ("Hotel Rwanda") to pen a script based on the story of Abdurahman Khadr. Khadr was groomed to become a terrorist because his father was a member of Osama Bin Laden's inner circle, but he became increasingly disillusioned with Al Qaeda as he matured. He escaped the compound after 9/11, was captured by U.S. forces in Afghanistan and was recruited by the CIA as an informant..." (full details)
"DreamWorks has optioned the film rights to Lois Duncan's novel "Hotel for Dogs." Book concerns a teen who secretly fills a vacant house with stray dogs after she moves in with her fastidious aunt and has to leave her "best friend" (a dachshund) behind. Duncan is author of "I Know What You Did Last Summer," the book upon which the Sony teen horror pic was based..." (full details)
Thanks to 'KC'.
