Military tough guy, Rod Lurie, is a filmmaker and TV producer, dedicated to political and military subjects. Such a brave man has signed on to direct the hostage thriller Borderline.
The story is penned by Justin Mark who also wrote scripts for Medallion and Patriot Down. Blue Valentine producer Jamie Patricof of Hunting Lane Films developed the screenplay with Mark and then gave it to the Voltage Productions (The Hurt Locker).
The story is a two-hander, based on a family taken hostage by fugitives. “A father with everything on the line engages in a battle of wits with a criminal with nothing to lose in order to save his wife and daughter.”
Lurie possess incredible prognostication skills since his first film, Deterrence (2000), which was set in 2008, predicted conflict with Iraq. Besides, his Oscar-nominated The Contender and his TV series Commander in Chief, dealt with the options associated with a woman from a Vice-President's chair.
His latest film, the journalism political drama Nothing but the Truth, will be released later this year.
Also, Lurie's remake of Sam Peckinpah's Straw Dogs will ultimately find its way to theaters on September 16th. Rod Lurie didn't take a cavalier attitude to making this film.
In this case Lurie reportedly intends to make a movie that evokes the stories of the amoral and on-the-run such as Hud, The Sugarland Express and The Getaway.
Voltage representatives are commencing sales in Cannes this week. Casting for the film's lead roles is currently taking place.
No doubt, Peckinpah made a paradigm shift for Lurie. Are you a fond of Lurie's film works, or rather of Peckinpah?
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The Getaway (S. Peckinpah)- Trailer
