Producers Steve Schwartz, Paula Mae Schwartz and Nick Wechsler have acquired the Pete Takeda book An Eye at the Top of the World and plan to mine the nonfiction book for a fictional drama.
An Eye at the Top of the World actually sounds like a pretty neat idea for a fictional story. The book chronicles a real CIA mission that sent elite American and Indian climbers to the top of the Himalayan peaks in India to monitor nuclear missile testing in China in 1965.
The author of the book, Pete Takeda will supervise the climbing scenes in the film. He’s a seasoned high-altitude climber who devoted part of the book to his attempts to recover the plutonium-powered spy device lost on the mission.
The Schwartzes and Wechsler are the producers who previously teamed up to bring us the highly anticipated adaptation of Cormac McCarthy’s novel The Road, which will be released this fall.
Ryne Douglas Pearson has been hired to write the script. He most recently wrote the screenplay for Knowing, the Alex Proyas directed thriller Knowing that stars Nicolas Cage that is set to come out early next year.
I was gonna say seems like a story about Satelites….
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