Saturday, August 20, 2011

Brian De Palma Signs for The Key Man

Mike Fleming

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.

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