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Abu-Assad and Jeffrey Dean Morgan are the New ‘Courier’

What an odd move it would make to see Hany Abu-Assad (who has been waiting, and waiting some more for his next project to unfold) to move from Paradise Now onto a screenplay written from the pair who gave us 3:10 to Yuma, currently lensing The A-Team and the “Wanted” franchise.

Eric Lavallée

Published on October 29, 2009

What an odd move it would make to see Hany Abu-Assad (who has been waiting, and waiting some more for his next project to unfold) to move from Paradise Now onto a screenplay written from the pair who gave us 3:10 to Yuma, currently lensing The A-Team and the “Wanted” franchise. According to the Production Weekly twitter feed, Abu-Assad has replaced the once pegged Russell Mulcahy (Resident Evil: Extinction) and Jeffrey Dean Morgan will take on the role that originally went to Adrien Brody. Somehow Morgan delivering a suitcase is slightly more believable than Brody delivering the goods.

The Courier centers on a daredevil courier who’s pursued across the country by corrupt cops and rival crime bosses when he has to deliver a briefcase to a notorious underworld figure who can’t be found. I haven’t read the script, but I imagine this will have less screeching wheels than what we find in The Transporter films.

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Eric Lavallée

Eric Lavallée is the founder, CEO, editor-in-chief, film journalist and critic at IONCINEMA.com (founded in 2000). Eric is a regular at Sundance, Cannes and TIFF. He has a BFA in Film Studies at the Mel Hoppenheim School of Cinema. In 2013 he served as a Narrative Competition Jury Member at the SXSW Film Festival. He was an associate producer on Mark Jackson's This Teacher (2018 LA Film Festival, 2018 BFI London). In 2022 he served as a New Flesh Comp for Best First Feature at the 2022 Fantasia Intl. Film Festival. Current top films for 2022 include Tár (Todd Field), All That Breathes (Shaunak Sen), Aftersun (Charlotte Wells).