Thursday, February 13, 2014

Clooney & Heslov Keen On "Pioneer" Redux

Sony Pictures is in talks to nab the film rights for an English-language remake rights to of the Norwegian conspiracy thriller "Pioneer" says THR


 Aksel Hennie, Wes Bentley and Stephen Lang starred in 's 2013 original which is set in the early 1980s during the Norway's oil boom. Two brothers are laying pipeline in the North Sea, diving deeper than anyone ever before. When a tragic accident strikes, one of them tries to learn the truth and realises his life is in terrible danger.

George Clooney and Grant Heslov will produce the film.

Though producing, Clooney is not attached to direct. The search for a writer to pen the adapted script is underway.

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