"The Killer" Movie Gets A Writer

Alex Holmes has been hired to write the "The Killer" says Deadline . Holmes penned and directed episodes of "House Of Saddam" and "Strike Back" along with the documentary "Stop at Nothing: The Lance Armstrong Story".

Based on the first book in author Tom Wood's Victor The Assassin series "The Killer", which centers on an assassin who had no last name and about whom very little is known.

 

 Pierre Morel ("Taken") is on board to direct the film.

 

 Andrew Rona and Alex Heineman will produce the film.

The hope is the film will be the potential first in a franchise.

Morel and the producers just worked together on "The Gunman" starring Sean Penn, Idris Elba and Javier Bardem which opens in February.