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Taken filmmaker Pierre Morel has been set to direct action-thriller The Blacksmith, screenwriter Ben Ripley’s (Source Code) adaptation of the graphic novel by Malik Evans and Richard Sparkman. Jon Shestack (Air Force One) will produce with Jason Netter (Wanted), and Jeremy Stein, with AGC Studios’ Stuart Ford…

EXCLUSIVE: French director Pierre Morel is attached to direct a new film about France's most wanted criminal, Rédoine Faïd, who was just recaptured by French police last week after a daring helicopter escape from a penitentiary in July 2018. Condé Nast Entertainment and Sentient Entertainment have partnered to produce…

“Corrupt judges, dirty cops. What do I want? I want justice.” So says the grieving mom-turned-urban guerrilla played by Jennifer Garner at the start of this first trailer for Peppermint, setting up the mayhem that comes when an evil cartel picks the wrong mother to victimize. Directed by Pierre Morel (Taken) from a…

French director Pierre Morel, who directed Liam Neeson’s first Taken installment and most recently the Jennifer Garner-led thriller Peppermint, has been tapped to helm sci-fi thriller The New Mrs. Keller for Lakeshore Entertainment. Danish actor Claes Bang, star of the Oscar-nominated film The Square, is attached as…

EXCLUSIVE: Lit management/producer Sentient has acquired Tony Mosher’s survival thriller spec script Sirius in competitive bidding, and Taken helmer Pierre Morel has been set to direct it. The film tells the story of two members of a Danish special forces dog sled team — one a sage veteran and the other a bold new…

EXCLUSIVE: Jennifer Garner is in talks to star in Peppermint, the Chad St. John-scripted action film for Lakeshore that will be directed by Pierre Morel. At the same time, the film is in the process of moving: STXfilms is in talks to distribute the film worldwide. It looked like Lionsgate had secured worldwide rights…

EXCLUSIVE: Lionsgate will close a deal with Lakeshore to distribute worldwide Peppermint, the Chad St. John-scripted action film that will be directed by Pierre Morel, sources said. Lakeshore is co-financing. Lionsgate is co-financing and co-producing. The high-action revenge premise has gotten the film likened to John…

EXCLUSIVE: UTA just emerged victorious in a signing derby for Taken director Pierre Morel. The filmmaker had been repped by CAA and had been in play since his agent Spencer Baumgarten left. Baumgarten, now at ICM Partners, was in the mix, as was Verve, but the team at UTA won the day. Morel, who came up as a…

EXCLUSIVE: Matthew Sand, who wrote the original screenplay for Peter Berg’s Deepwater Horizon, which stars Mark Wahlberg and has its world premiere at the Toronto Film Festival next Tuesday, is writing a mini-series for the BBC entitled Lionhearts about the Third Crusade of Richard the Lionheart and the battle for…

EXCLUSIVE: Pierre Morel has signed a deal to direct Big Stone Grid, the high-concept suspense thriller that is penned by Bone Tomahawk‘s S. Craig Zahler. This is the project Michael Mann was talking about producing and directing back in 2012 when Sony had acquired Zahler’s spec. Lotus Entertainment’s Bill Johnson, Jim…

Taken helmer Pierre Morel will direct the Lifetime drama pilot The Clan Of The Cave Bear, from Fox 21 TV Studios, Lionsgate TV, Imagine TV and Allison Shearmur Prods. Based on the first book of Jean M. Auel's Earth's Children series, The Clan Of The Cave Bear takes place at a time in prehistory more than 25,000 years…

Liam Neeson proved it could be done when, in his mid-50s, he suddenly turned into Hollywood’s hottest action star by launching a new tough-guy persona with Taken. Now that film’s director, Pierre Morel, is at it again, as I say in my video review above. Only this time Morel is working with 54-year-old Sean Penn, who…