Back in August, commercials director Dan Trachtenberg turned some heads (about seven million of them) with his impressive YouTube-posted short based on Valve's Portal videogames. If it was intended as a calling-card, it worked, since Trachtenberg has just been "attached" by Universal to **Crime of the Century.
Portal: No Escape was, as you'd expect, heavy on the slick sci-fi visuals (there was no cake, but then the cake is a lie), and it seems that we can expect something stylistically similar from Crime of the Century. Deadline describe it as "a high-octane heist thriller with a science-fiction twist".
Given that the film will be produced by Fast 5** and Wanted writer Chris Morgan, "high octane" sounds about right. Morgan is currently the golden boy at Universal, with a two-year first-look deal. Crime of the Century is currently only at the pitch stage, but the studio were obviously keen on what they heard. It will actually be written by Daniel Kunka (Twelve Rounds) though, since Morgan is somewhat busy preparing **Fast & Furious 6 **(hooray!). The sign of a good manager is knowing when to delegate...