Narco subs are apparently the new hot property for filmmakers. With one project about the illegal drugs smuggling craft already underway at Fox, the team at Matador Pictures is launching their own version, Hyperbaric, into the choppy cinematic waters, and has hired Roger Spottiswoode to direct it.
Dominic Morgan and Matt Harvey wrote the original spec script, which follows four strangers all harbouring secrets who must cooperate to pilot a crudely fashioned narco submarine. It’s carrying a fortune in cocaine, and the Coast Guard is tracking it down…
Spottiswoode is currently pushing** Midnight Sun**, in which a young boy attempts to reunite an abandoned polar bear cub with its mother in Canada, through the post-production process, but he’s still best known for the likes of Tomorrow Never Dies and Air America.
Hyperbaric will be competing with Fox’s Narco Su****b, which recently snared Antoine Fuqua to direct. We’ll have to wait and see which one surfaces from development first…