Kim Jee-woon Takes Over "Coward" Director Chair

Korean director Kim Jee-woon ("I Saw the Devil," "The Last Stand") will direct "Coward" says Variety.

The film is an adaptation of volune one of the Criminal comic book series by author Ed Brubaker.

Set in a world of hustlers, crooked cops and lowlifes, the story centers on a second-generation heist planner who always has a bulletproof exit plan.
  
Brubaker penned the adapted screenplay.

Jamie Patricof and Lynette Howell will produce the picture.

David Slade was previously attached to direct.