Cassar to Protect ‘Motorcade’

I’ve been keeping tags on Motorcade since I heard the project being pitched as an In the Line of Fire meets Black Hawk Down. Billy Ray’s script would be featured on the Black List, and with DreamWorks waiting for their Paramount divorce to finalize, I imagine the project collected some dust. Variety reports that Jon Cassar (from television’s 24) will replace Len Wiseman in the director’s chair and Ryan Reynolds is now the leading frontman for the role of the disgraced Secret Service agent who happens to be in the wrong place at the right time when the U.S. president is kidnapped in New York. Cassar has directed fifty-plus episodes Jack Bauer’s misadventures – the high octane experience will certainly help with he format for this spec. Ray remains on board the project. 

Production is expected to begin next year for a 2011 release.