Toronto: FilmNation Nabs Rights To Eye Coming Script For Oliver Hirschbiegel To Direct

FilmNation has acqured Guy Hibbert’s script Eye coming for Downfall director Oliver Hirschbiegel to helm, a move that reteams the writer and director who labored about this year's Liam Neeson-starrer a few minutes of Paradise, which won pointing and screenwriting honours at Sundance. FilmNation EVP Production Karen Lunder introduced in Eye coming for the company and may produce alongside FilmNation production leader Aaron Ryder. Stephen Wright, who works together the BBC where the project was created, will also produce FilmNation acquired the rights from BBC Films, in cooperation with BBC TV. The business expects to fast-track the film — an worldwide thriller that follows several figures affected by careful analysis drop a drone missile about the house in East Africa — and also begin prep about it this year.