With the political drama “Fair Game” starring Sean Penn and Naomi Watts finished, and having already premiered at Cannes, Doug Liman has a number of options for what to jump to next, and has now added one more.
Liman is attached to direct an adaptation of Monte Reel’s non-fiction book “The Last of the Tribe: The Epic Quest to Save a Lone Man in the Amazon.” The fascinating story “chronicles the search for the last surviving member of an Amazon tribe from the perspective of the government agents charged with both verifying his existence and preserving his way of life.” Mark Bailey will be adapting the book for the big screen.
Earlier this year, Liman was attached to direct “Three Musketeers” for Warner Bros. but a competing project from Summit directed by Paul W.S. Anderson, that has a cast and production start in August, put the the kibosh on that one. Liman also turned down a gig directing the long gestating big screen version of “The Man From U.N.C.L.E.” So what else could he he potentially jump to?
Well, there’s there’s the potential prison riot picture about the infamous incident at Attica in the 1970s; the sci-fi actioner “All You Need Is Kill“; a Coen Bros-scripted remake of “Gambit” and (yes, it’s a longshot) an untitled moon project that Liman had been working on back in 2009, with Jake Gyllenhaal as an astronaut involved in a lunar colonization. Frankly, they all sound pretty interesting and Liman, like Steven Soderbergh, always seems ready to jump to something he’s never tried before. We just hope he moves forward on something soon.
