IRISH director John Moore has joined a new movie adaptation of The Sunday Times top ten bestselling novel, The Hunters.
The Dundalk-born director behind Hollywood action movies A Good Day to Die Hard and Behind Enemy Lines will helm the film, which is based on renowned American author Chris Kuzneski’s 2013 book of the same name.
Moore revealed his excitement about directing the new thriller and said that the script was reminiscent “of the kind of great action movies I grew up on like Lethal Weapon, great characters and smart dialogue.”
The novel is the first of a series based on the Hunters, an elite team including a soldier, a historian, a computer genius, a thief and a weapons expert, who are financed by a billionaire philanthropist and given the task of finding legendary treasures.
The Hunters follows the group as they attempt to find a haul of gold, paintings, jewellery and ancient artefacts of the Romanian state, which were lost when being transported to the Kremlin during World War I.
The screenplay will be adapted by Robert Mark Kamen (Taken, Transporter) and will be produced by Tempo.
