New thrillers from Jim Caviezel, Sam Jackson, Martin Campbell...

by Matt Holmes

Three news stories have hit the trades today that probably didn't deserve their own post but work quite well bungled together like this. First up, Jim Caviezel will play a top MI5 operative whose routine investigation of a global corporation leads him to discover an imminent terrorist attack on London from intelligent the dangerous Samuel L. Jackson. The movie is BLOWN and will be directed by by Martha Fiennes, the sister of Joseph and Ralph. Her husband George Tiffin, the cinematographer from THE SPIRIT will write and handle photography. [The Hollywood Reporter] CASINO ROYALE director Martin Campbell will helm NAGASAKI DEADLINE, a NATIONAL TREASURE-esque thriller about an emotionally damaged FBI agent who must decipher historic events in a desperate race to avert a terrorist plot. David and Peter Griffiths (THE HUNTED, COLLATERAL DAMAGE) wrote the original script which is being re-written by William Boyles Jr. (CAST AWAY). The movie should begin production next year once Campbell is done with EDGE OF DARKNESS, the thriller starring Mel Gibson and Ray Winstone. [Variety] AVATAR and TERMINATOR SALVATION actor Sam Worthington has joined the already cast Helen Mirren as a fellow Israeli Mossad agent hunting a Nazi war criminal in DEBT. The movie from director John Madden (SHAKESPEARE IN LOVE, MRS. BROWN) is an English-language remake of the Israeli thriller HA-HOV. Matt Vaughn's production company is financing. [Variety]

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Matt Holmes is the co-founder of What Culture, formerly known as Obsessed With Film. He has been blogging about pop culture and entertainment since 2006 and has written over 10,000 articles.