Mike Binder is usually found making dramas such as Black Or White and Reign Over Me. But he's looking to turn his novel, Keep Calm, into an action thriller.
Working from his own book should help cut down on the sort of clashes that hindered work on films such as Fifty Shades Of Gray, though if Binder the novelist argues with Binder the filmmaker, that could be quite the confrontation to watch.
Keep Calm, which isn't scheduled to hit bookshelves until next month – but has been snapped up in rights form by New Line – blends current events, conspiracy and politics as an American man is caught up in an international incident and the British government tasks an MI6 officer with bringing him in. Producers Charles Roven and Alex Gartner of Atlas Entertainment are helping to shepherd the film to screens.
There's no word on when Binder might start work on this, but it's just the latest tome he's adapting for New Line, on the heels of his work on The Napkin Notes, which is being produced by Reese Witherspoon and her Pacific Standard company.