Variety reports that screenwriter Sheldon Turner will pen "Blowback," an action film about a rescue mission to free a kidnapped engineer in Iraq. The film will be based on Megan Stack's LA Times article "Dispatches From Dharan," which told of the families of Aramco workers in Saudi Arabia after their lives were disrupted by Islamic terrorists who kidnap and murder foreign workers.
Turner is expected to place the story in the "Green Zone" in Iraq, the place where American workers inhabit a fortress-like village surrounded by danger. When one of the engineers is abducted, special forces head out for revenge.
Turner says "It's an insular world we haven't seen in a film, this little village compromised of many CIA operatives who are operating undercover as engineers". The scribe has been busy of late, penning the remakes of of "The Longest Yard" and "The Amityville Horror", is completing the script for "Texas Chainsaw Massacre 2" and trying to independently develop his own flick "By Virtue Fall".
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