It’s been waiting in limbo for a while now, but it looks like Sam Worthington might finally get to star in near-future heist tale The Last Days of American Crime now that F Gary Gray has come aboard to direct it.
You may recall that, back in 2009, Worthington became attached to the project, though at the time there was no director contracted. We even joked that the graphic novel on which the story was based hadn’t even been published yet. Well, things have changed since then.
Rick Remender’s story takes place in an America where government scientists are getting set to broadcast a signal that will effectively switch off the impulse to commit any kind of crime. A career crook (Worthington) spots an opportunity to pull off one last heist. Naturally, we’d expect there’s more to the whole signal idea than that.
Karl Gajdusek, who has been hard at work re-writing Joseph Kosinski’s sci-fi thriller Oblivion (aka Horizons) for Universal, is now switching to draft the latest version of Crime. Gray has a little experience with the genre, given that he also brought us **The Italian Job **remake and last directed Law Abiding Citizen.