Pete Travis is making a deal to direct "Vantage Point" for Neal Moritz's Original shingle at Columbia.
Last fall, Col bought the Barry L. Levy spec script for mid-six figures against $1 million. "Rashomon"-style thriller depicts the attempted assassination of the president from five different points of view.
Moritz is producing; Original's Tania Landau exec produces. Andrea Giannetti and Adam Milano are overseeing for Col.
After talking to several A-list directors, Original picked Travis, a Toronto Film Festival prizewinner for his pic "Omagh."
An Irish-U.K. co-production, "Omagh" concerns the 1998 Irish Republican Army bombing that killed 29 people in the eponymous market town.
Moritz is in production on "XXX: State of the Union" for Revolution. His actioner "Stealth," directed by Rob Cohen and produced with Mike Medavoy and Laura Ziskin, is due out this summer via Sony.
Contact the Variety newsroom at
news@variety.com