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News > Bryan Singer eyeing hot revenge thriller project starring Mark Wahlberg

EW reports, after the success of Taken and Gran Torino, Hollywood has been on a vigilante kick. And right now, Bryan Singer (along with studio execs all over town) has been seriously considering getting his revenge on with The Prisoners, a much-sought-after thriller script to which Mark Wahlberg is attached to star as a Boston dad who takes the law into his own hands when his young daughter is kidnapped. The screenplay, which has been compared to The Silence of the Lambs and Seven, has been buzzed about as a calling card for its unknown writer, Aaron Guzikowski, and as a rare project targeted at adult audiences but with real commercial potential. When asked whether The Prisoners will be his next movie, Singer told EW: "I don't know yet. But I'm definitely intrigued. It's a great script. And I'd love to work with Mark."

Comments

Midas78 on 03/24/2009 3:19pm
The vigilante kick is about to jump the shark, once a Singer vigilante movie is released. How many scripts, stories, characters can this director ruin? If I was the producer to The Prisoners, I would need Singer to direct another Punisher (vigilante character that constantly fails at the BO) movie and make it successful before I would even consider him.
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