Remember director Peter Medak? For a while there it looked like he might be the next big thing after helming “Romeo Is Bleeding” and “The Krays” and then he kind of….wasn’t. Well, the 72 year old (!) Medak is still at, and has a new project in the works.
Maria Bello and Stephen Dorff are set to star in “Carjacked,” which sounds like a decidedly lean and low-budget affair. The story “centers on a single mother and child who are carjacked by a bank robber who has no intention of letting them go.” We presume power locks are going to play a big role in the movie.
The film was written by Sherry and Michael Compton and starts production next month in Louisiana. This sounds like something Dorff would’ve done, well, last year but we figured with his stint in Sofia Coppola’s upcoming “Somewhere” maybe he had some different career aspirations. Guess not. As for Bello, she’s too good to be trawling in stuff like this but then again, she signed her name to “Grown Ups” so what do we know. [The Wrap]