Currently wrangling his low-budget thriller Stretch through a tricky editing process, Joe Carnahan has a number of films in development, and he's a producer and director on US TV drama The Blacklist. Sony is now hoping he’ll be the man to finally bring action pic Five Against A Bullet to the screen{
**Five Against A Bullet **has been lingering in limbo for a while, ever since Transformers** producer Lorenzo di Bonaventura brought it to the studio back in 2011. Originally boasting a script by Alex Litvak, it’s the story of a Mexican politician whose father is slaughtered by a drug cartel. In order to stay alive during a campaign to clean up his local area, the canny politico hires the five best bodyguards available.
The film attracted Bruce Willis’ attention in 2012, but things have been awfully quiet since then. Carnahan – no stranger to films boasting a high bullet count thanks to** Smokin’ Aces** and The A-Team – is now aboard to re-write and direct the film, with Sony hoping he can finally crack it and have the project hit cinemas.