Mark Wahlberg's "Shooter"

[Advanced Dark]

Here's a new pic from the above titled film that was just posted on his myspace site gallery.

Here's an older story about the flick from Variety:

Par loads 'Shooter'
Wahlberg to star in Fuqua-helmed drama
By MICHAEL FLEMING
Wahlberg


Fuqua

Paramount Pictures is aiming for a summer start for "Shooter," a drama that will star Mark Wahlberg. Antoine Fuqua is set to direct, and Lorenzo di Bonaventura will produce.
Project is based on "Point of Impact," a novel by Stephen Hunter previously developed as a star vehicle for Keanu Reeves and, before that, Robert Redford.

Wahlberg will play a master sniper lured out of a reclusive existence to prevent an assassination. He's double-crossed and hunted for a murder.

Thesp, who most recently made "Four Brothers" and "The Italian Job" for Paramount, had been in talks for months on a deal to topline two pictures. He's also attached to the terrorist drama "By Any Means Necessary," with Fuqua.

Progress dragged on with "Necessary," and there were availability problems with co-star Al Pacino and scribe Paul Attanasio, who was expected to do a rewrite. A decision was made to instead move forward with "Shooter," which had a Jonathan Lemkin script that was ready to shoot.

Fuqua, who by then had developed a good relationship with Wahlberg and was itching to get into production on a feature, boarded the other project with him.

It is unclear which pic Wahlberg will make next. He just wrapped the Disney gridiron movie "Invincible" and is about to begin shooting the James Gray-directed "We Own the Night" with Joaquin Phoenix. In addition, Par's likely to tap Wahlberg to go with its "Italian Job" sequel, "The Brazilian Job."

Fuqua is also attached to New Line's Duke Ellington pic, "The Jazz Ambassadors."

Par prexy of production Brad Weston is overseeing "Shooter."

 

[ShadowBoxing]

Okay...so what does this have to do with Marvel?

 

[Roughneck]

I don;t know

 

[Advanced Dark]

Oops. Sorry guys meant to put it in the general movies thread and out of habit went to the Marvel board.

In Mod we trust.

 

[Warhammer]

lol

 

[Ronny Shade]

I hope it's more like Replacement Killers and less like Training Day.

 

[Advanced Dark]

Official Site is now up:

http://www.shootermovie.com

 

[Salemdog]

Sounds to me like it's off the book by Stephen Hunter called Point of Impact. Same storyline except that sniper was a Vietnam vet.

 

[Advanced Dark]

^ never heard of that one.

 

[Salemdog]

^ never heard of that one.

Well I just read the full deal up top and they said it actually was based on the book by Hunter. I am disappointed a bit. The subject of the book is much older, in his forties, and would have been well played by Tommy Lee Jones. But if they stay faithful to the rest it should be a good movie.