With box office receipts of close to 20 million so far after two weeks in the theaters – Summit Entertainment is looking to extend their relationship with director Jeff Wadlow. So after the bare knuckles film Never Back Down, Screen Daily reports that the company has optioned The Tomb – another action genre project (with a lead character that uses his wits a la Macgyver) originally written by Miles Chapman (direct to video: Road House 2) with a rewrite coming from Jason Keller.
The Tomb features a character called Ray Breslin who is the world’s
foremost authority on structural security and whose ingenuity and
knowledge are put to work when he has to escape from the master prison
of his own design and find the person who put him there.
Wadlow first came onto the scene with Rogue Pictures’ Cry Wolf and has been attached to direct and write Hail to the Thief – a project with the interesting, fact-based premise about a bank robber who uses the 2004 George W. Bush/John Kerry Iowa primary showdown to outfox a distracted police force. Wadlow’s and Bauman’s story is loosely based on three similar bank robberies that happened on the same night Bush and Democratic opponent Kerry hosted dueling campaign parties in August 2004.
