David Goyer to Direct 'The Breach'

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In a late Friday night deal, Lionsgate emerged victorious over several other bidders to pick up The Breach, a package that has David Goyer attached to direct.

Lorenzo di Bonaventura is producing with Justin Rhodes writing the script for a sci-fi action thriller that is an adaptation of a 2009 novel by Patrick Lee.

The story centers on a corrupt ex-cop who is trying to get his life back in order when he discovers a crashed plane in the Alaska wilderness. The first lady is among those dead in the wreckage. That sets off an adventure featuring a beautiful survivor, assassins, a secret organization, alien technology and an end-of-the-world scenario.

The package came together late last year when Goyer optioned the book and developed it independently with di Bonaventura but it only last week went to the studios. It drew interest from Warner Bros., Fox, Relativity and Millennium, but one reason Lionsgate nabbed it was by showing strong intent on fast-tracking the project.

Breach is the first of a three novel series. The next book in the trilogy is Ghost Country, followed by Deep Sky.

Nellie Stevens-Reed of Phantom 4, Goyer's production banner, will co-produce.

De Bonaventura produced The Last Stand, the Arnold Schwarzenegger actioner, for Lionsgate. He also produced Paramount's Jack Ryan, which is currently in theaters.

Goyer, known for penning Warners’ recent DC-based tentpoles (Man of Steel was the latest) but who has been jonzeing to direct a movie since his 2009 thriller The Unborn, is writing the script for Constantine, the DC hero being developed as a TV pilot for NBC. He is repped by WME and Bloom Hergott.

Rhodes is currently writing Unmanned with Chris Morgan producing and Keanu Reeves attached to star. He also sold a sci-fi adventure spec titled Second Sun preemptively to Warners. He is repped by WME, Madhouse Entertainment and Felker Toczek.

Lionsgate's president of production Erik Feig and Geoff Shaevitz, Summit Entertainment’s president of production, will oversee the project for the studio.

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