Dreamworks has named former 24 director and executive producer Jon Cassar as the director of upcoming feature film “Motorcade”. The studio is hoping to nab Ryan Reynolds for the starring role.
The studio hopes to get the picture into production by late summer or early fall 2010, and DreamWorks is eyeing Ryan Reynolds to play the disgraced Secret Service agent who happens to be in the wrong place at the right time when the U.S. president is kidnapped in New York.
Walter Parkes and Laurie MacDonald are producing.
Billy Ray continues to work on a script that was originated by Hans Bauer and Craig Mitchell.
The drama has been a priority for DreamWorks and was one of the projects Tom Cruise seriously considered when “Live Free or Die Hard” helmer Len Wiseman was attached.
Reynolds, who will next star in the Martin Campbell-directed “Green Lantern” for Warner Bros. next spring, has not signed on at this point.
Cassar left 24 after completing season 7 to pursure a feature film career – he will unfortunately not be involved with the upcoming eighth season. In the mean time, Cassar has kept busy directing the recently aired Criminal Minds episode “Haunted” for CBS and the upcoming Fringe episode “Earthling”.
Source: Variety
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