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Relativity Media Hiring James McTeigue On Period Crime Drama ‘Ness/Capone’

By MIKE FLEMING JR | Thursday September 8, 2011 @ 2:10pm PDTTags: Al Capone, James McTeigue, John Cusack, Oliver Butcher, Relativity Media, Ryan Kavanaugh, Stephen Cornwell
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EXCLUSIVE: James McTeigue, who just completed the John Cusack-starrer The Raven for Relativity Media, is getting back in business with Ryan Kavanaugh. I’m told that McTeigue is making a deal to direct Ness/Capone, the Grant Pierce Myers script that made the 2010 Black List and puts a new spin on the epic battle between Eliot Ness and Al Capone during the Prohibition Era 1920s. Relativity acquired it in April. McTeigue is negotiating, even as he is casting his next film, Message From the King, the Oliver Butcher- and Stephen Cornwell-scripted thriller about an enigmatic outsider who comes to L.A. to investigate the sudden disappearance of his sister. That film is being financed by FilmNation Entertainment.

Ness/Capone covers the feud in more shades of gray than were evident in The Untouchables. Ness is a skirt-chasing 26-year-old publicity hound who seemed to get an adrenaline charge out of courting danger, kicking in doors, smashing moonshine stores and rubbing it in the noses of Capone and other mobsters. He would parade confiscated bootleg trucks past Capone’s hotel, calling Capone in advance to suggest he look out the window. Ellen Goldsmith-Vein, Jeremy Bell, Gianni Nunnari, Jason Felts and Rene Rigal are producing.

McTeigue is repped by CAA.

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James McTeigue Directing ‘Message From The King’

By MIKE FLEMING JR | Wednesday July 20, 2011 @ 10:41am PDTTags: Aaron Ryder, FilmNation Entertainment, James McTeigue, John Le Carre, Oliver Butcher, Stephen Cornwell
Mike Fleming

EXCLUSIVE: V For Vendetta helmer James McTeigue has been set to direct Message From the King for FilmNation Entertainment. Scripted by Oliver Butcher and Stephen Cornwell (Unknown), the thriller centers on Jacob King, an enigmatic outsider who comes to LA … Read More »

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FilmNation Takes On ‘Message’ Movie

By MIKE FLEMING JR | Wednesday August 18, 2010 @ 10:20am PDTTags: Aaron Ryder, FilmNation, FilmNation Entertainment, Glen Basner, Oliver Butcher, Warner Independant Pictures
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Message From The King, a thriller that once had Will Smith and Michael Mann circling before it languished when Warner Independent Pictures folded, is generating some new heat. Glen Basner’s FilmNation Entertainment has come aboard to produce the action thriller and package it for spring 2011 production start. FilmNation’s Aaron … Read More »

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