'Amateur' hour at Fox
Jackman, Fox go for action
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"24" executive producer Evan Katz will write the script and Jackman will produce with partner John Palermo.
Since establishing Seed as a production based at Fox, Jackman and Palermo have set a variety of projects to match Jackman's versatility. They've covered comedy ("The Rebound Guy"), musical ("Carousel") and superhero ("Wolverine").
Jackman will play a CIA cryptographer whose fiancee is killed in a suspicious plane crash. When he discovers that the plane was brought down by terrorists, he finds the leverage that forces his bosses to train him to exact revenge.
Littell's novel, which was set during the Cold War, was previously turned into a 1981 film. New pic isn't a remake, but a different version using the book as source material. Katz will contemporize the tale with the goal of launching a character in the vein of Jack Ryan or Jason Bourne.
Jackman is starring with Ewan McGregor and Michelle Williams in the Marcel Langenegger-directed "The Tourist," which Seed is producing with Arnold Rifkin and Christopher Eberts. Jackman will follow by starring with Nicole Kidman early next year in Baz Luhrmann's untitled epic.
Jackman and Katz are repped by Endeavor.
