Having already been through the hands of Joe Carnahan and Miss Bala director Gerardo Naranjo, it was looking like the new stab at Death Wish might never find someone to take it on. Now it has two someones attached, with Big Bad Wolves filmmakers Aharon Keshales and Navot Papushado in place.
Bruce Willis is attached to star in the fresh adaptation of Brian Garfield's novel, which previously launched a movie franchise with the 1974 original. Back then it was Charles Bronson as the man whose life is destroyed by a violent crime against his wife and daughter and goes on a vigilante rampage.
It'll be an even tougher sell these days with the debate over gun laws and shootings in the States happening almost every day, but Paramount and MGM, which are sharing the rights, are hoping that Willis and now two directors who have made violence work on screen in the past, will be able to turn this into a new film series. The cameras should be rolling this summer but no release date is on the books just yet.