Triple Frontier is a film that has been through several development convulsions, and the latest is not positive. Channing Tatum and Tom Hardy have dropped out of the movie, and it has also lost its studio home at Paramount, shoving it unceremoniously back into limbo.
Mark Boal's script is set in the notorious border zone between Paraguay, Argentina and Brazil, and aims to chronicle the difficult efforts to combat organised crime in the area where the Iguazu and Parana rivers converge.
This is one that has seen plenty of interest in the past – at one point, Tom Hanks and Will Smith were considering it when Kathryn Bigelow was attached to direct, and Johnny Depp was seriously interested early last year. It apeared to take a few positive steps forward when All Is Lost 's J.C. Chandor agreed to direct, and that led to Tatum and Hardy boarding the cast alongside recent Oscar winner Mahershala Ali. Now, with barely a month before the original planned start of shooting, it has all fallen apart. According to Deadline, Chandor had re-written the script in a way that the main duo didn't particularly love, and despite requests for more changes, they've decided to leave. And that led Paramount, which has been going through a leadership transition, to drop the plan to make the movie.
Of course, it's clearly something that can attract actors, so chances are it'll be set up somewhere else, but for now, Triple Frontier returns to the back-burner.