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Lee Toland Krieger (“Age of Adaline”) will rewrite and direct Denison Hetch’s spec “Vanish Man”, according to Deadline.
The action thriller, says the outlet, “follows a man who helps people escape their troubled lives by staging elaborate deaths and creating new identities. He finds himself enlisted by the FBI to track down the one client that was not supposed to disappear.”
Shawn Levy, of “Night at the Museum” fame, serves as one of the film’s producers.
Meanwhile, Deadline also reports that “Jurassic Park” scribe David Koepp has boarded ”The Themis Files”, Sony’s adaptation of the Sylvain Neuvel novel.
The book sounds very interesting :
The novel revolves around a secret project to assemble the ancient body parts of a giant humanoid relic buried throughout the world by aliens. It’s discovered in the Black Hills of South Dakota, where a young girl named Rose Franklin falls into a huge hole and literally lands in the palm of a giant metal hand. The government swarms, but loses interest after failing to gain any military or technological secrets. By the time it’s demilitarized years later, that young girl is a physicist with the University of Chicago and she spearheads the building project after other body parts are discovered around the U.S. She tries all this covertly in an underground facility in Denver but when her project goes public, the paranoia and greed push mankind to the brink of world war, even as its researchers puzzle over whether they are reviving a weapon of mass destruction or something else.
Matt Tolmach and Josh Bratman will produce.
