South African Oscar-winning director Gavin Hood (Tsotsi – Best Foreign Language Film) has been signed to direct the Middle-East political thriller, Rendition, produced by New Line Cinema.
Rendition was developed by Anonymous Content, the company that manages both Hood and Kelley Sane, who is writing the script. Steve Golin of Anonymous Content will produce, with David Kanter, Keith Redmon and Michael Sugar as executive producers.
Production has been fast-tracked to commence in the American fall. Rendition is described as “a multi-layered film which centres on a Cairo-based CIA analyst whose world spins out of control after he witnesses the interrogation of a foreign national by the Egyptian Secret Police”. (Source: Variety)
