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Exclusive: Robert Schwentke in Talks to Direct The Osterman Weekend Remake

By Dustin Rowles | Posted Under Trade News | Comments (6)

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The early buzz on Red (a.k.a. the Helen Mirren machine gun movie) has been largely positive on the basis of the trailers alone, and director Robert Schwentke looks to be going in to Comic-Con with a head of steam, the awful adaptation of The Time Traveler’s Wife notwithstanding. Schwentke, who also directed 2005’s Flightplan, may in fact become a very much in-demand director in the next few years.

One of the projects he’s now considering, according to The Hollywood Cog, is Summit Entertainment’s The Osterman Weekend, which has the double marketing advantage of both being a remake of a 1983 Sam Peckinpah film starring Rutger Haur and Dennis Hopper, as well as being another adaptation for Schwentke to tackle, this one from author Robert Ludlum, he of Bourne fame.

The Osterman Weekend follows a hardworking attorney and loving husband, John Tanner, who is convinced by a CIA agent that the friends who have invited him to a weekend in the country are engaged in a conspiracy called Omega, which threatens national security. The film has been in development for some time over at Summit, and the script comes from Simon Kinberg (Sherlock Holmes, Mr. and Mrs. Smith). The pic is being produced by Kinberg and Peter Davis.

If Schwentke signs on, it wouldn’t be his only in-development project. Conspiracy of Fools, based on the Kurt Eichenwald novel, has been announced, and he’s also attached to Charlie Johnson in Flames, based on the Michael Ignatieff novel (yes, that Ignatieff — the leader of Canada’s liberal party) and Entering Hades, based on a John Leake novel. Clearly, Schwentke likes to adapt conspiracy theory novels.









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Comments

Yay Canada!

My girlfriend read Charlie Johnson in Flames and loved it. I forget why.

Posted by: Brenton at July 15, 2010 2:12 PM

And that's big L Liberal, thank you very much. Anyone want to get into a discussion about the liberalness of the Liberal party?

Posted by: Brenton at July 15, 2010 2:17 PM

As someone who spent the early '80s devouring Ludlum, the recent spate of adaptations is disorienting. First, he really was a hack writer of the first order. Second, the man has been dead for almost 10 years, so why now??

Posted by: sansho1 at July 15, 2010 3:00 PM

His books have been pretty steadily adapted:

1977 - The Rhinemann Exchange — miniseries — Stephen Collins as David Spaulding, Lauren Hutton as Leslie Jenner Hawkewood
1983 - The Osterman Weekend — film — Rutger Hauer as John Tanner
1985 - The Holcroft Covenant — film — Michael Caine as Noel Holcroft
1988 - The Bourne Identity — miniseries — Richard Chamberlain as Jason Bourne, Jaclyn Smith as Marie St. Jacques
1997 - The Apocalypse Watch — miniseries — Patrick Bergin as Drew Latham
2002 - The Bourne Identity — film — Matt Damon as Jason Bourne and Franka Potente as Marie Helena Kreutz
2004 - The Bourne Supremacy — film — Matt Damon as Jason Bourne
2006 - Covert One: The Hades Factor — miniseries — Stephen Dorff as Jon Smith
2007 - The Bourne Ultimatum — film — Matt Damon as Jason Bourne
2011 - The Chancellor Manuscript — film — Leonardo DiCaprio as Peter Chancellor1
2013 - The Matarese Circle — film — Denzel Washington as Brandon Scofield1
1 announced/in development

Posted by: Brenton at July 15, 2010 4:29 PM

Wow, thanks for that, Brenton. The Chancellor Manuscript was always my favorite -- I hope it gets made.

Posted by: sansho1 at July 15, 2010 7:24 PM

Don't forget the original Bourne movies with Richard Chamberlain in the leading role.

Posted by: FabMax at July 15, 2010 9:15 PM