According to Riskybizblog, the man who directed Denzel Washington to win his second Oscar for Training Day, Antoine Fuqua is in talks to direct PRISONERS, a thriller that made quite a buzz earlier this year when Bryan Singer, Mark Wahlberg, and Christian Bale all expressed interest in the project but unfortunately at this point, those big names will most likely not be involved anymore, which is too bad because this could’ve re-united Wahlberg with Bale since their upcoming THE FIGHTER. But no worries, Fuqua doesn’t have problem casting the right actors for the roles, plus he has worked with Bruce Willis (Tears of the Sun), Clive Owen (King Arthur) before so maybe he could give those guys a call.
The hot spec script was written by Aaron Guzikowski, it was initially planned to be housed at a studio but the producers decided to sell it to Alcon Entertainment which then will release the movie via Warner Bros. October 2010. The budget is estimated about $30 – $40 Million just so they could put it on the fast-track. Yeah, that’s understandable, with that low money, there’s no way they can afford Bale, Wahlberg, and Singer. Production will probably start in either January or February.
Here’s the plot for PRISONERS which is considered brooding and dark..
After his 6-year-old daughter and her friend are kidnapped, a small-town carpenter butts heads with a young, brash detective in charge of the investigation. The father is a Bible-reading, deer-hunting survivalist. The cop, meanwhile, can’t wait to get to the city. Feeling failed by the law, the father captures the man he believes responsible and begins to torture him in a desperate attempt to find out what he did with the girls, whom he’s convinced are still alive
