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Ryan Craig Adapting Action Thriller TAKEDOWN for Warner Bros.

by Jason Barr    Posted: September 15th, 2011 at 3:13 pm

Warner Bros. has tapped writer/director Ryan Craig (Small Town Saturday Night) to adapt Brad Thor’s international action thriller novel Takedown. For those unfamiliar, Takedown is the fifth installment in a series of books that follow the adventures of Scot Harvath, a former Navy SEAL Team 6 member who goes on to become a counterterrorism agent – a position that undoubtedly finds him in all kinds of bullet-ridden/”end of civilization as we know it” type of scenarios.

More specifically, Takedown finds Harvath attempting to stop a terrorist who has attacked New York City over Fourth of July weekend. News of Craig’s hiring comes courtesy of Heat Vision. Per their report, Bill Gerber and Casey Wasserman will produce Takedown with hopes of turning it into a project of The Bourne Identity ilk (surprise, surprise). If you’d like to know a little more about the project, hit the jump for a synopsis of Thor’s book.

AFM Debuts First Photos and Synopses from 6 Upcoming Movies Including MANOLETE, MONA LISA, SMALL TOWN SATURDAY NIGHT and THE LONG GOOD FRIDAY

by Matt Goldberg    Posted: November 12th, 2009 at 8:18 pm

When it comes to the first photos and synopsis from upcoming films, Collider has reaped great rewards from this year’s American Film Market (AFM).  For those who don’t know, AFM is where film buyers from around the world come once a year to buy movies and also pre-buy films in development.  Simply put, this is where a lot of money changes hands in the film industry and it’s where many decisions about what you and I get to see are made.  In an effort to try and raise a film’s profile or attract film buyers, many of the studios distribute full synopses and still images for their movies.

With that in mind, we have grabbed some of those synopses and images for Manolete (starring Adrien Brody and Penelope Cruz), Mona Lisa, Pearblossom, Small Town Saturday Night (starring Chris Pine), and The Long Good Friday.  Hit the jump to check it all out.  Please note that the synopses are copied down exactly as printed.  I have made no editorial changes.  Furthermore, some of these synopses are complete as describe the entire film.  For those wary of spoilers, read carefully.

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