From THR – The second feature adaptation of Robert Ludlum’s The Osterman Weekend is one step closer to the big screen, as Summit has tapped Jesse Wigutow to rewrite the script. Robert Schwentke (Red) will direct. Peter Davis, Simon Kinberg, Doug Liman, and Jeffrey Weiner are producing.
In the reboot, on the eve of an annual weekend getaway with friends, a man is visited by a reporter (in the book it’s the CIA) who tells him his friends aren’t who he thinks they are. When the reporter turns up dead, the man gets caught in downward spiral of doubt and paranoia and, ultimately, a desperate fight to stay alive long enough to figure out who he can trust and who’s out to kill him.
Ah, the classic – they’re trying to kill me and I don’t know why – ploy, second only to the amnesiac.
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