It's all change in the development of the thriller Protection. Gone are Paul Walker and Simon West, who were working on Brendan Noonan's script, and in are Clive Owen and director Patrick Alessandrin.
The project was announced last year at Cannes with Walker and West headed to New Mexico to shoot, but now that's off the table and the new team are busy getting themselves ready, still working from Noonan's screenplay. Owen you should be familiar with, and Alessandrin has just made District 13: Ultimatum, so he has some action experience under his belt already.
Protection sees a former Special Forces soldier facing down Mexican gangs to rescue a judge's daughter, and if you think it sounds like a hundred films you've already seen, you might be right. We wonder why Owen would plump for this one, but then maybe he just had so much fun making Shoot 'Em Up that he's ready for another high-octane gun-fest.
There's no word on when production will start, and if the history of this movie keeps up, it could be never...