Christopher McQuarrie to Write and Direct Unforgiven

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Source: Deadline
August 25, 2010


Christopher McQuarrie has been hired by GK Films to adapt the miniseries Unforgiven, likely as a star vehicle for Angelina Jolie, reports Deadline.

The original miniseries aired on ITV1 in 2009 and starred Suranne Jones as Ruth Slater, a convict responsible for a double homicide of two police officers who, upon her release from prison 15 years later, is targeted for revenge.

The title Unforgiven was previously used for Clint Eastwood's 1992 Best Picture winner and it is likely that this project will find an alternate title (though the slight variation The Unforgiven had, before that, been used for a 1960 John Huston film).

McQuarrie, best known for his screenplays to The Usual Suspects and Valkyrie, also wrote and directed 2000's The Way of the Gun. His next project (now complete, according to the article) is the sequel to X-Men Origins: Wolverine.

Anyone seen the original series? I heard it was decent. With McQuarrie writing and Jolie starring I am definitely interested in this, hopefully it's more State of Play than Edge of Darkness.

 

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Christopher McQuarrie to Write and Direct Unforgiven

Long planned for a big screen adaptation, the ITV1 miniseries Unforgiven has found a helmer. Deadline reports that Christopher McQuarrie (The Way of the Gun, Jack Reacher) has signed on to both write and direct the Warner Bros. feature version.

The original series, which aired in 2009, starred Suranne Jones as Ruth Slater, a convict responsible for a double homicide of two police officers who, upon her release from prison 15 years later, is targeted for revenge.

McQuarrie, still best known for his Academy Award-winning script for Bryan Singer's The Usual Suspects, is also said to be a likely contender for directing Mission: Impossible 5 at Paramount Pictures.

Unforgiven will be executive produced by Ken Kamins, Nicola Shindler, Colin Vaines and Sally Wainright (who scripted the original miniseries).

So, 3 years on I guess it has been confirmed...again. No sign of Angelina still starring though.