We don't even remember reporting on the Jeffrey Dean Morgan project "The Courier" (honestly, who keeps close tabs on JDM?), but hey, apparently it exists.
Now it's on our radar because apparently Mickey Rourke and Til Schweiger ("Inglourious Basterds") have joined the cast.
The film will be directed by Palestinian director Hany Abu-Assad whose controversial 2005 film "Paradise Now" won a Golden Globe for best foreign language film. Abu-Assad was supposed to direct Rourke in "11 Minutes" alongside Vincent Cassel, and Alice Braga ("Predators" "I Am Legend"). The project was announced in March 2009, and scheduled to begin production later in the year, but if that ever shot, we never heard about it (most likely it did not).
The Wrap, who brings us this report, doesn't mention "11 Minutes," but this one is an action thriller written by Derek Haas and Michael Brandt ("3:10 to Yuma") and therefore a completely different project (the original project was about sex clubs and a protagonist with a serious S&M addiction that threatens to ruin his life).
The picture evidently centers on a courier (Morgan) "hired to deliver a briefcase to a notorious crime boss who can't be found. The courier finds himself pursued by corrupt cops, double-crossing feds and rivals from the criminal underworld." In related news Schweiger has apparently joined the cast of McG's "This Means War" Chris Pine, Tom Hardy and Reese Witherspoon.
