Two big names are being placed near The Mission, a Warner Bros project which has been gestating for a while, based on a six year covert military operation in Colombia.
Deadline man Mike Fleming offers this new update on a story he reported back in October of 2008 for Variety about the acquisition by Warner Bros. of an action thriller pitch by Lorenzo di Bonaventura and Scott Z. Burns based around the attempt to rescue three captured Americans deep in the Colombian jungle.
Peter Landesman, a screenwriter and foreign correspondent for the New York Times Magazine, has written the script and the two names whirling around the project, which is apparently gaining a fierce momentum are David O. Russell to direct and Brad Pitt to star.
Neither men have confirmed their interest but they are said to be considering the project. Who knows? The film may well be WB’s answer to Columbia Pictures who are handling the untitled new film from Kathryn Bigelow which will deal with the killing of Osama Bin Laden.
Landesman was quoted back in 2008 on the project,
We’re fed so many post-9/11 movies filled with political ambiguity, but this story is unequivocally about good vs. evil, with a happy ending, FARC once represented an idea of freedom for peasants, but it became a purely evil narco-trafficking and hostage-taking mechanism.
Now we are post-Bin Laden there’s a clear momentum for these films. Let’s see what transpires shall we? Lets.
