Since stepping off of Deepwater Horizon before it began filming, All Is Lost/** A Most Violent Year** writer/director J.C. Chandor has been in search of other projects. While many of them are ideas he options or creates himself, Deadline reports that he’s also interested in one that was started by someone else, with Chandor in early talks to take over **Triple Frontier.
Originally developed by Zero Dark Thirty duo Kathryn Bigelow and Mark Boal, Frontier is an ensemble piece set in the violent border zone situated between Paraguay, Argentina and Brazil (hence “triple frontier”), a hot spot for organised crime and notoriously tough to police. Bigelow and Boal, who also worked on The Hurt Locker, had been letting this one build quietly but have decided instead to focus on a film about POW Bowe Bergdahl.
So now Chandor is talking to Paramount about possibly taking on Triple Frontier, which has seen interest from Tom Hanks and Will Smith, and there’s always the chance that Chandor, if he signs on, could be a lure to bring the talent to the table. Meanwhile, the filmmaker is still considering The Liar’s Ball, a true story of property tycoons in New York.