Peter Berg, coming off some solid reviews for last year's Lone Survivor, will turn his attention to a different kind of war with his next project. He'll take on the drug war in an adaptation of "The Hunt for El Chapo", from the New York Times article by Patrick Radden Keefe. Craig Borten (Dallas Buyers Club) will write the script that centers on the notorious Sinaloa drug kingpin who built a global empire and stayed on the run from authorities until his capture earlier this year. [THR]
Casey Affleck may be out, but the Boston Marathon bombing drama Boston Strong is still...uh, going strong. Daniel Espinosa (Safe House) is on board to direct the film that "follows the massive manhunt to apprehend the two men believed to be responsible for the bombings, as well as examining the city’s reaction following the events." Eric Johnson and Paul Tamasy (The Fighter) wrote the script.
And E.L. "Evan" Katz, whose dark comedy Cheap Thrills won him a lot of fans this year, has signed on to direct You'll be the Death of Me, which sounds like it will be in a similarly murderous vein. Mark Hammer's script follows "two single New Yorkers whose budding romance is complicated by the attention of a masked knife-wielding psychopath."
