The Key Man

Potential 00 Agent Posts : 2801 Member Since : 2011-08-22

Deadline:

EXCLUSIVE: QED International and Safehouse Pictures have set Brian De Palma to direct the Joby Harold-scripted thriller The Key Man. That film was recently set for U.S. distribution with Tom Ortenberg’s Open Road Films and will begin production by year’s end. QED is financing the movie, about a single father who’s targeted by U.S. government agents because his body contains answers to important national secrets. The style is a throwback to paranoid 70s movies like Three Days of the Condor and Marathon Man. The Key Man will be produced by Bill Block, Paul Hanson, Tory Tunnell and Harold. Harold’s recent script work includes Awake, Army of the Dead and All You Need Is Kill. De Palma, who was part of that paranoid 70s thriller movement, last directed the 2007 Iraq drama Redacted and before that The Black Dahlia. He’s also responsible for Scarface, The Untouchables, Carrie and Mission: Impossible. De Palma’s repped by ICM.

00 Agent Posts : 10588 Member Since : 2011-03-14

Any news on this?

Subject: Re: The Key Man Sun May 20, 2012 6:48 pm

Oh, I thought it was knew until I read Sharky's post.

Hope it happens. Hope something happens after PASSION.

Potential 00 Agent Posts : 2801 Member Since : 2011-08-22

No news, really. I think it's in the pipeline, but De Palma will be working on HEAT with Jason Statham before he gets to THE KEY MAN.

Subject: Re: The Key Man Sun May 20, 2012 9:42 pm

Oh yeah, I forgot about HEAT. Hey, I'll take any De Palma. Even if he, Gods forbid, makes a misfire, it'll probably be interesting anyway.

Potential 00 Agent Posts : 2801 Member Since : 2011-08-22

The White Tuxedo wrote:: Oh yeah, I forgot about HEAT. Hey, I'll take any De Palma.

You might change your tune once you see REDACTED.

Subject: Re: The Key Man Sun May 20, 2012 9:43 pm

Harmsway wrote:

The White Tuxedo wrote:: Oh yeah, I forgot about HEAT. Hey, I'll take any De Palma.

You might change your tune once you see REDACTED.

For the longest time I didn't think he actually made it himself, just produced it or something. I'll get around to it.

00 Agent Posts : 10588 Member Since : 2011-03-14

Not big on the new avatar, Harms.

Subject: Re: The Key Man Sun May 20, 2012 9:46 pm

The Lithgow one is great.

Potential 00 Agent Posts : 2801 Member Since : 2011-08-22

Sharky wrote:: Not big on the new avatar, Harms.

It's Darwyn Cooke's illustration of Parker from his adaptation of Donald Westlake's THE MAN WITH THE GETAWAY FACE.

00 Agent Posts : 10588 Member Since : 2011-03-14

It's making me uncomfortable.

Potential 00 Agent Posts : 2801 Member Since : 2011-08-22

Sharky wrote:: It's making me uncomfortable.

Well, we wouldn't want that, would we?

Subject: Re: The Key Man Sun May 20, 2012 10:05 pm

I'm waiting for Sharky to see your new one and proclaim: "It' stinks."

Potential 00 Agent Posts : 2801 Member Since : 2011-08-22

The White Tuxedo wrote:: I'm waiting for Sharky to see your new one and proclaim: "It' stinks."

Now you ruined the set-up.