Bret Ratner might have a bad reputation thanks to the lightweight gumph that was the Rush Hour movies and X-Men: The Last Stand, but when he went a bit darker with Red Dragon he actually showed some talent. Now he looks like he’s going to follow the comedy Tower Heist with something very different in the form of Hunting Eichman.
Deadline reports he wants to get much more serious with the project, which is a thriller based on the true account of Israeli agents who secretly entered Argentina to capture Nazi-leader Adolph Eichmann, known as the architect of the Final Solution. Eichmann eluded capture for nearly two decades, until Mossad picked up his trail in South America. The eight agents sent after him risked everything to bring Eichmann back to face trial in Israel, where he was hanged in 1962.
Anne Peacock will write the script. It’s surprising a movie about bring Eichman to justice hasn’t been brought to the screen by Hollywood before, but presumably it’s waited this long due to the complicated politics surrounding Israel’s decision back then to send agents onto foreign sovereign territory to kidnap people, even if they were Nazis. It’s not known when Hunting Eichman might shoot.
General movie news courtesy of Movie Muser
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