Justin Rhodes is penning the script, with di Bonaventura and Goyer both set to produce. Allied with a beautiful covert operative whose life he saved, Chase must now play the role he’s been destined for a pawn of incomprehensible forces or humankind’s final hope as the race toward Apocalypse begins in earnest. Though a nightmare of monumental proportions, it pales before the terror to come, as Chase is dragged into a battle for the future that revolves around an amazing artifact. Trying to regain his life in the Alaskan wilds, ex-con/ex-cop Travis Chase stumbles upon an impossible scene: a crashed 747 passenger jet filled with the murdered dead, including the wife of the President of the United States. It is the world’s best-kept secret and its most terrifying. Thirty years ago, in a facility buried beneath a vast Wyoming emptiness, an experiment gone awry accidentally opened a door. Initially, there had been a question over whether Goyer would be directing as well as producing, and now it looks like that he will indeed be going behind the camera, keen to return to the director’s chair for his first film since 2009’s The Unborn.Ĭourtesy of Amazon, here’s the synopsis for the original novel:

Goyer’s adaptation of The Breach had had interest from Warner Bros., Fox, Relativity, and Millennium, but it’s believed that it was Lionsgate’s strong enthusiasm to fast-track the project that was the deciding factor. He and Lorenzo di Bonaventura (Transformers) teamed up for the adaptation when the news first hit, and now THR reports that the duo took the package to studios last week, with Lionsgate winning the rights in a deal late on Friday night. Goyer made headlines when he optioned the rights for Patrick Lee’s doomsday-thriller novel, The Breach.

The Breach by Patrick Lee