It looks like Bruce Willis is getting ready to head up another tepid thriller — at least it’s not another “Die Hard” movie (for now). Willis and director Antoine Fuqua are in negotiations to join Summit’s gestating prison escape drama “The Tomb.” The duo previously worked together in 2003’s “Tears Of The Sun.”
In the generic-sounding thriller, Willis would play “Ray Breslin, the world’s foremost authority on structural security. After analyzing every high security prison and learning a vast array of survival skills so he can design escape-proof prisons, his skills are put to the test. He’s framed and incarcerated in a master prison he designed himself. He needs to escape and find the person who put him behind bars.” Sigh. The project was written by Miles Chapman who we are not surprised to learn wrote “Road House 2: Last Call.” Summit have turned the script over to Jason Keller who recently scribed “Machine Gun Preacher” for Marc Forster to give it a rewrite. Should Willis and Fuqua come on board, production will be fast tracked.
As you might tell, we’re not particularly enthused about this. Fuqua’s last film “Brooklyn’s Finest” was an overwrought police drama that got more ridiculous with each passing minute and we’ve sort of given up on waiting for him to fulfill the promise he showed in the overrated “Training Day.”