Editorial Staff
Martin Campbell (“Casino Royale”) is in early talks to direct the long-gestating feature adaptation of George Wallace and Don Keith’s novel “Firing Point”.
The film, titled “Hunter Killer”, has been in the works for several years with a number of directors – including Antoine Fuqua and Phillip Noyce – flirting with the project at different stages of it’s inception.
The film, set up at Relativity and Original Studios, is being produced by Neal Moritz, Toby Jaffe and Ryan Kavanaugh.
The Wrap, who had the scoop, adds :
“Hunter Killer” finds a renegade Russian military leader pushing the U.S. to the brink of a nuclear confrontation and shattering a decades-old peace agreement between the two former enemies. Cut off from all outside communication, a submarine commander and an elite Navy special forces unit are all that stand between the Russian assault and all-out war.
In addition to Bond movies “Goldeneye” and “Casino Royale”, Campbell also helmed the Antonio Banderas-starring “Zorro” movies, “Green Lantern”, and “Edge of Darkness”.
