Liam Neeson has signed up for quite a few films in the past few weeks, and now he’s added one more, A Walk Among The Tombstones. The movie will be the first in a new financing deal between Exclusive Media and Cross Creek Pictures, who have entered into a three year 50-50 co-financing, co-producing, co-development deal for a minimum of two feature films per year with budgets up to $65m.
Written and to be directed by Scott Frank (The Lookout), the film is one of the popular ‘Matt Scudder’ book series written by Lawrence Block, with principal photography set to start in February 2013 on location in New York City.
The film is about a former NYPD cop, who’s now an unlicensed private eye and a recovering alcoholic haunted by past mistakes, Matt Scudder (Liam Neeson) is hired to find the kidnapped wife of a drug dealer. He operates just outside the law where the police don’t go to track down the kidnappers, who he discovers have been involved in multiple kidnappings and brutal murders.
Scott Frank has been involved with the film for a long time, having first written the script 14 years ago. While various directors has come and gone, Frank is now taking it on himself.
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