French director Pierre Morel's debut film may have been the amazing parkour action flick District B13 (recently remade into the terrible Brick Mansions), but his stock 'n trade has been the world of undercover agents and black ops ever since. He helmed the dreadful From Paris with Love with John Travolta and is probably best known for rejuvenating Liam Neeson's career with Taken. His latest film sounds like more of the same as Morel will direct an adaptation of Tom Wood's The Killer.
The Killer is based on the first book in Wood's "Victor the Assassin" series, of which there have been four total, and they sound pretty straight forward. Victor is a hired killer with no last name who takes on a routine job in Paris, only to be double-crossed and chased around the globe by other contract killers.
Nothing we haven't seen before but it could offer the opportunity for Morel to help reinvent another actor's career. He's currently attempting to do just that with Sean Penn, Javier Bardem, and Idris Elba in The Gunman, due out in February 2015.
