Director Will Gluck has made his name with comedies such as Easy A and Friends With Benefits, although he’s planning to go in a slightly different direction (although still with comic touches), as Deadline reports that he’s in talks with CBS Films to produce and possibly direct Skyjack: The Hunt for D.B. Cooper.
Cooper hijacked a plane and parachuted out of it over the Pacific Northwest with over $200,000 in cash on November 24, 1971. He was never brought to justice, but was labeled a folk hero. The novel the film will be based on, written by Geoffrey Gray, follows the legend from the perspectives of three different people who claim to be the real D.B. Cooper.
Keith Bunin is writing the script for the project, although there’s no news on when it might shoot.