After taking the world by storm with Taken, Pierre Morel very quickly put his follow-up, From Paris With Love, into production, but since then he’s been slightly playing musical chairs with his directing choices. He been and gone from Pursuit, recently left the Dune remake and despite the fact was recently in talks for the Ouija movie Universal is planning, he’s apparently left that behind and is no longer in contention for that.
So what is he going to do? Well, according to Variety, he has signed on to direct Warner Bros.’ alien invasion action film EDF, for Sam Raimi and Bill Block’s QED International. EDF stands for Earth Defence Force, and is about three alien fighters, who attack Earth, with the world’s leaders responding by finding humanity’s best to form a fighting force in preparation for an expected larger alien invasion.
Danny Strong currently is rewriting the script, originally penned by Andrew W. Marlowe. Morel is currently down to direct, although looking at his track record, don’t be shocked if he leaves this one behind too!