Paramount, Platinum Dunes Making Heatseekers

[Hunter Rider]

http://www.comingsoon.net/news/movienews.php?id=65518

Source: Risky Business
April 27, 2010


Paramount Pictures has picked up the original action screenplay Heatseekers from new screenwriter George Mahaffey. Platinum Dunes' Michael Bay, Andrew Form and Brad Fuller will produce the project.

According to Risky Business, Heatseekers follows a young ex-military pilot who infiltrates a gang of aerial "pirates" working out of Bangkok and takes part in an elaborate tower heist using powered gliders and parachutes.

Mahaffey is an attorney-turned-screenwriter who has sold an original pitch to Thousand Words and worked on an action feature script for producer Arnold Koppelson (Se7en).

Sounds like a fun and potentially spectacular concept.

 

[Hunter Rider]

Given the sequence in TF3 with the Birdmen, I wonder if Bay will end up actually directing this. He could have used the footage he shot in Chicago as sort of a test run.

 

[bullets]

Given the sequence in TF3 with the Birdmen, I wonder if Bay will end up actually directing this. He could have used the footage he shot in Chicago as sort of a test run.

TF3 does spring to mind. If it's anything comparable to that , my ticket is bought.

 

[Hunter Rider]

http://www.comingsoon.net/news/movienews.php?id=98899

Timur Bekmambetov Targets Heatseekers

Source: The Hollywood Reporter
January 15, 2013

Timur Bekmambetov has signed on to direct Paramount Pictures' upcoming action project Heatseekers with Michael Bay among the producers. The Hollywood Reporter brings word that F. Scott Frazer has also boarded the project to draft the screenplay.

Originally scripted by George Mahaffey, Heatseekers is said to follow an ex-military pilot who comes up against a group of air pirates.

Bekmambetov is well known for films like Night Watch and Wanted. He most recently directed Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter.

In addition to Bay, Andrew Form, Brad Fuller and Chris Morgan will produce.

 

[DarkSovereignty]

I might check this out, plus this might be the first platinum dunes film that isn't a horror remake I've heard about.