Willis will get rolling in 'Transit'
Thesp jumps into 'Water' pic
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Shooting starts in March.
Christopher Eberts, Kia Jam and Arnold Rifkin produce. Ascendant Pictures and Cheyenne Enterprises are producing, with Capitol Films co-financing and handling overseas territories. Gap financing on the film was provided by Eleven Eleven Films.
Bayer is a videos and commercials director perhaps most famous for helming Nirvana's groundbreaking "Smells Like Teen Spirit" video; he most recently won MTV Video Award hardware for his work with Green Day. Bayer has been courted for such films as remakes of "Vanishing Point" and "Bring Me the Head of Alfredo Garcia," but he sparked to making his debut with Willis on a gritty crime drama.
"Black Water Transit" follows the divergent agendas of criminals, cops and lawyers as they collide over a shipment of illegal firearms and a double homicide. Willis plays Earl Pike, a criminal who tries to get his family's illegal gun collection to a safe haven. Three other key roles will be cast shortly.
Capitol and Ascendant most recently collaborated on drama "Lucky Number Slevin," starring Josh Hartnett, Morgan Freeman and Willis.
