After the success of Taken and Gran Torino, Hollywood has been on a vigilante kick. And right now, Bryan Singer (along with studio execs all over town) has been seriously considering getting his revenge on with The Prisoners, a much-sought-after thriller script to which Mark Wahlberg is attached to star as a Boston dad who takes the law into his own hands when his young daughter is kidnapped. The screenplay, which has been compared to The Silence of the Lambs and Seven, has been buzzed about as a calling card for its unknown writer, Aaron Guzikowski, and as a rare project targeted at adult audiences but with real commercial potential. When asked whether The Prisoners will be his next movie, Singer told EW: 'I don't know yet. But I'm definitely intrigued. It's a great script. And I'd love to work with Mark.' source: EW
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Bruckheimer rolls with Haas’ ‘Shake’

August 31, 2009 | Posted by Staff in Movie News, Read| 0 comments

Jerry Bruckheimer has just bought the rights to a short story Haas wrote called “Shake” and hired the writer to expand it into a feature screenplay. The deal was for more than seven figures.

The origin of Haas’ story was a new site called Popcornfiction.com that he recently created for TV and film writers to showcase their pulpy short fiction. Among the contributors are Craig Mazin (“Superhero Movie”), Scott Frank (“The Lookout”), Jeff Lowell (“Over Her Dead Body”) and Nichelle D. Tramble (“Women’s Murder Club”).

“I wanted to create a place where new popular short fiction could flourish and Hollywood could have a new resource for cultivating great ideas,” Haas says on the site.

Bruckheimer apparently visited the site, loved Haas’ story of an FBI agent chasing a killer while he begins to lose control of his own body and bought the idea for a potential Disney film.

Haas, repped by WME and Industry Entertainment, is a published novelist (“The Silver Bear”) and the screenwriting partner of Michael Brandt, with whom he has co-written the scripts for “Wanted” and “3:10 to Yuma.” The pair also has scripts in development for “Beverly Hills Cop IV” at Paramount, “All Creatures Great and Small” at Columbia and “The Matarese Circle” at MGM.

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