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Breck Eisner To Helm ‘The Witch Hunter’ For Summit/Emmett/Furla; Vin Diesel Circling Title Role

By MIKE FLEMING JR | Tuesday March 5, 2013 @ 10:17am PSTTags: Big Deals Film, Breck Eisner, Summit Entertainment, The Last Witch Hunter, Vin Diesel
Mike Fleming

Vin DieselEXCLUSIVE: Breck Eisner has been set to direct The Last Witch Hunter, and Vin Diesel is in early talks to star. The film is being co-financed by Summit Entertainment and Emmett/Furla Films. In the Cory Goodman-scripted film, the protagonist is an immortal witch hunter who partners with his natural enemy, a female witch, to stop the covens of New York City from unleashing a plague on humanity. Summit is out to Diesel to play the Witch Hunter. Goodman’s script made the 2010 Black List. His manager, Adam Goldworm will be exec producer.

Breck EisnerEisner most recently helmed The Crazies, and Diesel will next be seen in the Justin Lin-directed Fast & Furious 6, and the David Twohy-directed Riddick. Diesel is repped by CAA and Brillstein and Eisner by CAA and Management 360. Goodman is repped by WME and Aperture Entertainment.

Emmett/Furla is at the center of numerous big scale films that most recently include a team-up with Universal and Working Title on Everest, the Baltasar Kormakur-directed film that has Christian Bale attached to star; the Kormakur-directed 2 Guns with Denzel Washington and Mark Wahlberg; and Lone Survivor, the Peter Berg-directed adaptation of the Marcus Luttrell memoir about how Luttrell and his Navy SEAL team members fought to stay alive after being ambushed in Afghanistan in 2005 by Taliban forces during a covert mission in the Hindu Kush mountain region, where the team went to kill a terrorist leader. Universal will release that film.

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Breck Eisner To Helm ‘Stretch Armstrong’

By THE DEADLINE TEAM | Thursday July 19, 2012 @ 5:56pm PDTTags: Breck Eisner

Stretch ArmstrongBreck Eisner has signed on to direct the live-action movie Stretch Armstrong based on the Hasbro property, his agency CAA confirmed. The Relativity Media production is slated for release April 11, 2014. The script is … Read More »

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New Line Dropping ‘Escape From New York’

By MIKE FLEMING JR | Wednesday July 20, 2011 @ 1:51pm PDTTags: Allan Loeb, Breck Eisner, Jamie Moss, John Carpenter, Kurt Russell, Neal Moritz, New Line, Tom Hardy, Warner Bros
Mike Fleming

EXCLUSIVE: If eye patch-wearing antihero Snake Plissken is going to slither in a reboot, it won’t be at New Line and Warner Bros. They’ve allowed the option to drop on a remake they’ve been developing, meaning that the reboot of … Read More »

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Summit Eyes Breck Eisner For ‘The Last Witch Hunter’

By MIKE FLEMING JR | Wednesday March 16, 2011 @ 8:18pm PDTTags: Breck Eisner
Mike Fleming

EXCLUSIVE: Breck Eisner is in early talks to direct The Last Witch Hunter, a Cory Goodman pitch that puts Twilight Saga maker Summit Entertainment into the witch business. Summit made a pre-emptive mid-six figures acquisition of the property a year ago from Goodman, who scripted Priest. It was bought … Read More »

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