Swedish directing quintet Traktor has optioned sci-fi thriller script "Siphon" by Paul Sloan.
Pic is described as "The Silence of the Lambs" meets "Blade Runner." It's about an obsessed female detective tracking a serial killer through a sprawling metropolis, using futuristic crime-fighting weapons and tactics, only to discover the suspect may not be human.
Traktor is producing with Bryan Brucks.
Sloan also wrote, and is attached to star in, "Snakeskin," which is set up at Millennium Films with Emmett/Furla producing.
Traktor is the commercials and musicvideo directing team behind Madonna's "Die Another Day" vid and the Miller beer campaign "Presented by Dick," among others.
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