Based upon author Robert Ludlum's novel, the story has the host of an investigative news show becoming convinced by a Central Intelligence Agency agent that the friends he has invited to a weekend getaway in the country are engaged in a KGB conspiracy that threatens national security.
The book was adapted once before in 1983 and was the last film made by Sam Peckinpah. John Hurt, Craig T. Nelson, Rutger Hauer, Dennis Hopper, Meg Foster, Burt Lancaster and Chris Sarandon starred in that classic pic
Simon Kinberg and Jesse Wigutow penned the reboot pic that will leave the Cold War and spy elements behind and will switch some of the occupations and the show host character will have a different job, and the CIA agent character will be a reporter who warns the man his friends aren't whom he thinks they are. The reporter then gets killed, pushing the man into a desperate fight to survive and learn whom he can trust and why he's being targeted.
Kinberg, Peter S. Davis, Doug Liman, Jeffrey M. Weiner and Ben Smith will produce.
Both Robert Schwentke and Liman were in line to direct the remake at one tim.
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