Liam Neeson Takes A Walk Among the Tombstones
Deadline
http://www.deadline.com/2012/05/liam-neeson-takes-a-walk-among-the-tombstones-in-production-deal-with-exclusive-media-and-cross-creek-pictures/#utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=twitter
/may12/tombws.jpg
We don’t really care if he’s fighting wolves, snapping necks, dueling Sith lords, fighting with other gods, or playing games with ghosts; if Liam Neeson is in a movie, it’s got our attention. Especially with a title like A Walk Among the Tombstones.
Deadline reports that Liam Neeson is set to star as Matt Scudder in A Walk Among the Tombstones, the Scott Frank-scripted adaptation of the Lawrence Block book series. Frank will direct his script. The movie will begin production February, 2013 in New York and is the first film in a new three-year deal between Exclusive Media and Cross Creek Pictures to develop, finance and produce at least two films per year, with budgets up to $65 million. Each of the films will be released through Universal Pictures, which has a slate distribution deal with Cross Creek.
In A Walk Among the Tombstones, Neeson plays Scudder at the time he’s an ex-NYPD cop and unlicensed private detective and recovering alcoholic. He’s hired to find the kidnapped wife of a drug dealer. In the process he discovers that the kidnappers have done this before and it has led to brutal murders. Block’s Scudder character was previously played by Jeff Bridges in the Hal Ashby-directed 8 Million Ways to Die. Double Feature Films partners Michael Shamberg and Stacey Sher will produce with Danny DeVito and his Jersey Films. Exclusive Media’s Alex Walton will sell overseas rights at Cannes.
More on this one soon!
Got news? Click here to submit it!
Take a walk in the comments section below!
Categorized:
