Gerard Butler has been of late in some dodgy films to name a few the worst film well...one of the worst films I've seen in my life 'The Bounty' that he did with Jennifer Aniston as well as that other film that wasn't worth me seeing at the cinema '300'...but this next film that he is 'attached to' 'The Bricklayer' sounds like it could be really good but we'll just have to see what the reviews are like when they come in.
This film will be adapted by Hanna Weg. This story will be adapted from the best selling novel that was written by the former FBI agent Noah Boyd. Boyd though is the pseudonym that the actual former FBI agent Paul Lindsay. The story in the books is that Steve Vail who is now working as a bricklayer in Chicago after being in the FBI is tracked down by the FBI and asked by them to track down and help to stop a criminal gang. A female deputy director at the FBI who is assigned to work with Vail-this part hasn't been cast yet.
Millennium Films have acquired the rights for this film to go ahead and will be the first project for Mark Gill the new president of Millennium Films who became president back in June. He'll oversee this new project along with Boaz Davidson who is the companies head of development and creative affairs. John Thompson will also oversee this as head of production.
Producing the film will be Alan Siegel and Danielle Robinson. Executive producers on the project will be Hanna Weg and Erick Lindsay. Gerard Butler is set to be the star of the show with being cast as the main character.
Almost forgot to mention that the story for the big screen has been changed from what it appears to be in the books...this I can imagine has been done to liven the story up and make it a more Americanized film with explosions in, lots of action scenes and sequences, lots of fast cars, and no doubt that at some point in the film there will be a love interest that will lead to a sex scene of some sort. Anyhow, the story in the film will be that the main character will be a rogue former FBI agent that is called up by his former employers to help them battle a criminal gang that are demanding an escalating series of multi-million dollar ransom payments.
We'll just have to wait and see if this along with other big action packed films that usually promise so much but usually fail to make it up to the mark does the same crash and burn or if it actually is good and a real one to watch at the cinema. It's fate really does hang in the balance.
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