Landesman Travels "Down By The River"

"Parkland" writer-director Peter Landesman will rewrite and direct the espionage thriller "Down By The River" says Deadline.

The story follows a former undercover agent turned high-level DEA official who discovers his younger brother murdered in broad daylight in El Paso.He learns the hit was ordered by a drug kingpin in Juarez, possibly as retribution for the official's past actions. So, he sets off for revenge against both the kingpin and the DEA for putting him in this situation.

Landesman will rewrite the script by Henry Bean.

Scott Stuber is set to produce the film