After the success of Safe House, there’s been a bit of a bidding war for Marc Guggenheim’s latest script, with all the major studios (barring Disney) showing interest in his screenplay Black Box, according to Variety.
While DreamWorks put up a spirited fight (having just lost out on Rhett Reese and Paul Wernick’s script Epsilon), Universal, who backed Safe House, picked it up, although there’s no news on how much they paid. The script ‘finds Air Force One crashing on American soil and an investigator who discovers technical difficulty wasn’t to blame, but rather, the plane was shot down.’
If the movie goes ahead, the US President isn’t going to be having a great time on screen in the next couple of years, as we’ve already got two films about terrorists taking over the White House due for release next year, and now his plane is in trouble.