The last one we wrote about (an adaptation of Wilbur Smith’s novel Those In Peril) was in March; today brings word of what is being described as a "Somali piracy actioner" titled High Value Target. To be directed by Spenser Cohen (from a script he is co-writing with Zach Luna), the film (said to be inspired by real events) centers on "a multi-national hit-squad consisting of five elite special ops soldiers who take out a ship of 200 Somali soldiers/pirates and capture a high value target with vital information." The project which the newly-formed Energy Independent has come on board to produce, is reportedly being shopped...
- 6/20/2012
- by Tambay A. Obenson
- ShadowAndAct
With the influx of driving centered films hitting Hollywood — the best of which is undoubtedly Drive — it’s no wonder that Voltage Productions is joining suit. According to THR (via ThePlaylist) the company has, along with Solipsist Films, picked up a spec script titled The Driver for Spenser Cohen and Zach Luna.
The film will center “on a man whose life suburban existence is flipped on his drive to work when he finds himself coerced to be the wheelman of an assembled group of criminals. The man learns that thieves were not randomly assembled and that the heist leads to a larger mystery.” Judging by the synopsis, it’s not an adaptation of Walter Hill‘s 1978 crime film of the same name, starring Ryan O’Neal — which, of course, Nicolas Winding Refn‘s Drive was heavily inspired by.
Cohen is a recent graduate of USC film school and will also...
The film will center “on a man whose life suburban existence is flipped on his drive to work when he finds himself coerced to be the wheelman of an assembled group of criminals. The man learns that thieves were not randomly assembled and that the heist leads to a larger mystery.” Judging by the synopsis, it’s not an adaptation of Walter Hill‘s 1978 crime film of the same name, starring Ryan O’Neal — which, of course, Nicolas Winding Refn‘s Drive was heavily inspired by.
Cohen is a recent graduate of USC film school and will also...
- 12/17/2011
- by jpraup@gmail.com (thefilmstage.com)
- The Film Stage
Voltage Productions and Solipsist Films have acquired Spenser Cohen and Zach Luna's spec script "The Driver" says Heat Vision.
The story centers on a man whose suburban existence is flipped on his drive to work when he finds himself coerced to be the wheelman of an assembled group of criminals. The man learns that thieves were not randomly assembled and that the heist leads to a larger mystery.
Cohen will direct while Stephen L’Heureux, Nic Chartier and Craig J. Flores are producing. Casting will begin in the new year.
The story centers on a man whose suburban existence is flipped on his drive to work when he finds himself coerced to be the wheelman of an assembled group of criminals. The man learns that thieves were not randomly assembled and that the heist leads to a larger mystery.
Cohen will direct while Stephen L’Heureux, Nic Chartier and Craig J. Flores are producing. Casting will begin in the new year.
- 12/16/2011
- by Garth Franklin
- Dark Horizons
Voltage Productions and Solipsist Films have acquired Spenser Cohen and Zach Luna's spec script "The Driver" says Heat Vision.
The story centers on a man whose suburban existence is flipped on his drive to work when he finds himself coerced to be the wheelman of an assembled group of criminals. The man learns that thieves were not randomly assembled and that the heist leads to a larger mystery.
Cohen will direct while Stephen L’Heureux, Nic Chartier and Craig J. Flores are producing. Casting will begin in the new year.
The story centers on a man whose suburban existence is flipped on his drive to work when he finds himself coerced to be the wheelman of an assembled group of criminals. The man learns that thieves were not randomly assembled and that the heist leads to a larger mystery.
Cohen will direct while Stephen L’Heureux, Nic Chartier and Craig J. Flores are producing. Casting will begin in the new year.
- 12/16/2011
- by Garth Franklin
- Dark Horizons
"Drive" might not have made too many waves at the box office, or swept the awards circuit (although it's doing rather better than expected), but it has been a critical favorite, and shows all the signs of being a cult classic, and the kind of movie that will be endlessly copied over the next few years. Indeed, we shudder to think of the number of film school students currently working on shorts with big gaudy retro fonts and French electro scores. And already, we're seeing the first sign of similar projects doing the rounds, with The Hollywood Reporter bringing news that Voltage Productions, who were behind Oscar-winner "The Hurt Locker" and Robert Redford's upcoming "The Company You Keep," are teaming up with relatively new company Solipsist Films (next year's Helen Hunt vehicle "Decoding Annie Parker") to pick up a spec script named, yes, "The Driver," from newcomers Spenser Cohen and Zach Luna.
- 12/16/2011
- The Playlist
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