EXCLUSIVE:Brad Anderson has been set to direct In Search of Captain Zero, a film based on Allan Weisbecker's true-life novel of the same name that has been adapted by Michael Bacall. The project hails from Ken Kao's Waypoint Entertainment, which recently produced Yorgos Lanthimos’ Oscar-nominated The Favourite, with…
EXCLUSIVE: Brad Anderson (The Call) is attached to direct horror Book Of Leaves, which The Exchange will be launching in Cannes next week.
The original screenplay by Jonathan Hirschbein (The Fix) centers on a single mother and former nun who has lost her faith. When she is hired by the Vatican’s General Council to…
EXCLUSIVE:Â Existence, a survival story based on a screenplay by Anthony Jaswinski who penned the hit thriller The Shallows, will be directed by Brad Anderson (The Machinist) and produced by Tucker Tooley Entertainment. The harrowing story was inspired by the 1981 ill-fated shipwreck of a research vessel that became…
Lily Rabe, who can be seen in Annapurna’s Dick Cheney biopic Vice, in which she plays daughter Liz Cheney, Â is on onboard for the Brad Anderson-directed Netflix film, along with Stephen Tobolowsky (One Day At A Time, The Goldbergs), Adjoa Andoh (Invictus), and Lucy Capri (Queen America). Sam Worthington was previously…
Avatar star Sam Worthington is attached to headline a Netflix untitled thriller that will be directed by Beirut and The Machinist helmer Brad Anderson. It’s about a man who must find his courage and hold onto his sanity when his wife and daughter disappear in the middle of an ER visit.
Alan B. McElroy (Spawn, The Retur…
Well, better late than never. It has taken screenwriter Tony Gilroy’s script of Beirut only 27 years to reach the screen, but it was well worth the wait especially in that it gives its leading man Jon Hamm a movie role worthy of his talents. So why did it take so long for the script Gilroy wrote near the beginning of…
"These issues and these stories don't go away," says Jon Hamm of the Middle East conflicts detailed in the 1982-set Beirutdirected by Brad Anderson and penned Tony Gilroy. "What I think is evergreen or important about the story is it gets to the root of what the problem is," adds the Emmy winner of the Bleecker…
EXCLUSIVE: Brad Anderson has been set by financier-producer Amasia Entertainment to direct FATE, an original script by Gary Whitta, the scribe who wrote  The Book Of Eli and Rogue One: A Star Wars Story. Anderson reunites with Michael Helfant and Bradley Gallo’s Amasia after they collaborated on the Halle…
Sony has just signed The Machinist‘s Brad Anderson to direct Shadow Run, the action thriller script by writer Joe Gazzam (Cliffhanger, Replay) that the studio picked up in February. The Bourne-esque spy tale is produced by Neil Moritz for Original Film and exec produced by Hernany Perla; Michael De Luca and Andrea…
EXCLUSIVE: Lotus Entertainment and Davids Canton Production are partnering on psychological thriller Restart based on Matthew Klein’s novel No Way Back which was published this spring by Corvus. Brad Anderson (The Call, The Machinist) is attached to direct from a script penned by Gregory Poirier (National Treasure: Boo…
BREAKING: The Brad Anderson-directed thriller Eliza Graves is based on a short story by Edgar Allan Poe and begins production next week. If it makes it, the Millennium Films project will mark the end of a long road for screenwriter Joseph Gangemi, who penned the script adapting “The System Of Doctor Tarr And Professor…
