Best known for commercial actioners and comedies like the Rush Hours and the imminent Tower Heist, Brett Ratner looks to be getting serious for one of his future projects: a Nazi-hunting drama about **Hunting Eichmann.
Adolf Eichmann was a high-ranking SS officer during the Second World War, and one of the major figures behind the conception and facilitation of the Final Solution: he organised the logistics behind the mass deportation of Jews to the ghettos and concentration camps of Eastern Europe.
After the war he fled to Argentina, where he worked as a foreman in a Mercedes-Benz factory. He was finally tracked down in 1960 by the Israeli intelligence agency Mossad, tried for crimes against humanity, and hanged in 1962, the only execution ever to result from a civil trial in Israel.
As the title suggests, it's his post-war investigation and pursuit that concerns Hunting Eichmann, a thriller about the Israeli agents secretly entering Argentina on the war criminal's trail. Ann Peacock (The Lion, The Witch And The Wardrobe) is writing the screenplay, with Anthony Bregman (Eternal Sunshine Of The Spotless Mind) producing for Mandalay Pictures.
Eichmann was played by Stanley Tucci in Frank Pierson's brilliant 2001 TV-film Conspiracy, and by Thomas Kretschmann in Robert Young's 2007 Eichmann.