French visual effects company Buf has optioned "Romeo," a spec script from newcomer Will Simmons. The film, an action thriller with a modern twist on William Shakespeare's legendary character, marks a partnership between the effects house and Energy Independent, a film development, packaging and production arm of Brooklyn Weaver's Energy Entertainment. In the script, instead of being a star-crossed lover, Romeo resurfaces as an undercover agent trying to take down a major crime syndicate. India Osborne, Buf's head of production, will produce with Weaver. Simmons will co-produce. Production will take place in Europe,...
- 11/15/2012
- by Lucas Shaw
- The Wrap
Maggie Grace has landed the female lead opposite Liam Neeson in the thriller Taken, a co-production between Luc Besson's Europa Corp. and 20th Century Fox.
Pierre Morel will direct from a screenplay by Besson and Robert Mark Kamen.
Grace is set to play the estranged daughter of Neeson's character who is kidnapped and forced into the slave trade. Neeson's character is a former spy who uses his skills to rescue her.
Shooting begins this month in Paris.
Besson is producing alongside Pierre-Ange Le Pogam and India Osborne.
Grace, who starred on Lost from 2004-05, next appears in Sony Pictures Classics' The Jane Austen Book Club, directed by Robin Swicord, and the indie Suburban Girl, based on the best-seller "The Girls' Guide to Hunting and Fishing."
She is repped by ICM, 1 Management and the law firm Barnes, Morris, Klein.
Pierre Morel will direct from a screenplay by Besson and Robert Mark Kamen.
Grace is set to play the estranged daughter of Neeson's character who is kidnapped and forced into the slave trade. Neeson's character is a former spy who uses his skills to rescue her.
Shooting begins this month in Paris.
Besson is producing alongside Pierre-Ange Le Pogam and India Osborne.
Grace, who starred on Lost from 2004-05, next appears in Sony Pictures Classics' The Jane Austen Book Club, directed by Robin Swicord, and the indie Suburban Girl, based on the best-seller "The Girls' Guide to Hunting and Fishing."
She is repped by ICM, 1 Management and the law firm Barnes, Morris, Klein.
- 2/20/2007
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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