New York -- Longtime Martin Scorsese producer Barbara De Fina, Austin Chick and Andrew Kletjian have optioned Lisa Unger's new Random House thriller "Black Out."
Chick, who also has optioned Tim Clark's art forgery caper script "Fake," will adapt and direct both for the big screen.
"Black Out" centers on Annie Powers, an affluent wife and mother living in Florida. Cracks in her idyllic life emerge when her psychologist is murdered and a familiar dark figure appears, triggering long-suppressed memories of a former life she must piece together to save herself and her daughter.
The Wma-repped Chick, a co-producer and uncredited writer on Sidney Lumet's "Before the Devil Knows Your Dead," helmed "Xx/Yy" and this summer's Josh Hartnett drama "August." He recently signed to write and direct an untitled Hamptons-based thriller for Sony's Screen Gems in the spring.
"I've been wanting to do a character-driven thriller since ('Devil')," said Chick,...
Chick, who also has optioned Tim Clark's art forgery caper script "Fake," will adapt and direct both for the big screen.
"Black Out" centers on Annie Powers, an affluent wife and mother living in Florida. Cracks in her idyllic life emerge when her psychologist is murdered and a familiar dark figure appears, triggering long-suppressed memories of a former life she must piece together to save herself and her daughter.
The Wma-repped Chick, a co-producer and uncredited writer on Sidney Lumet's "Before the Devil Knows Your Dead," helmed "Xx/Yy" and this summer's Josh Hartnett drama "August." He recently signed to write and direct an untitled Hamptons-based thriller for Sony's Screen Gems in the spring.
"I've been wanting to do a character-driven thriller since ('Devil')," said Chick,...
- 9/10/2008
- by By Gregg Goldstein
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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