Though it seems like Brian De Palma’s name is attached to lots of projects, all of them have so far stayed lingering in development hell and he hasn’t actually made a film since 2007’s Redacted. But QED International will be hoping he changes that with The Key Man.
Penned by Awake scribe Joby Harold, the script finds a single father on the run from US government types because his body happens to contain the answers to some vital national secrets. We hate it when that happens.
According to Deadline, the eventual film is planned as a throwback to ‘70s paranoia thrillers such as Marathon Man and Three Days of the Condor, which is something De Palma should be able to pull off with aplomb.
Assuming, of course, that it gets made. While Open Road Films have picked it up for distribution and it’s mentioned as heading before the cameras by the end of the year, we’ve heard that before with De Palma films. His most recent acquisition, the remake of French drama Crime d’amour **, was supposed to be shooting right now but it’s still waiting to happen. And let’s not even talk about his long-gestating psycho thriller Toyer…