According to Risky Biz Blog Christian Bale may be joining Mark Wahlberg in a thriller called Prisoners.
Endeavor is putting together the package and plans on shopping it after a director is officially attached, with insiders stressing the project isn’t financed and saying the Wahlberg-Bale combo is fragile. This one’s all about making the numbers work for the players, who typically command hefty paydays
Bryan Singer (X-Men, X2, Superman Returns) is apparently interested in directing, although there has been no confirmation that he has signed up yet.
After his 6-year-old daughter and her friend are kidnapped, a small-town carpenter butts heads with a young, brash detective in charge of the investigation. The father is a Bible-reading, deer-hunting survivalist. The cop, meanwhile, can’t wait to get to the city. Feeling failed by the law, the father captures the man he believes responsible and begins to torture him in a desperate attempt to find out what he did with the girls, whom he’s convinced are still alive.
