Not long ago, Dreamworks bought a script by John Hlavin (Donkey Punch), who’s set to write Underworld 4 (if it ever happens). Now scribe Steven Zaillian is on to produce the “action thriller.” It’s only description is that it’s an “international heist movie.” [THR]
Zaillian is producing for Dreamworks but under his Film Rites company, which has the Kristen Stewart-starrer Welcome To the Rileys.
Despite his A-list screenwriter stature, Zaillian hasn’t produced much (A Civil Action, All The King’s Men, American Gangster) and two of them are films he wrote and directed. The other, American Gangster, he wrote. Rileys and this heist script are void of Zaillian touches in either writing or directing.
What do you think of Zaillian? As a writer? Director?