Arnold Schwarzenegger Searching For QED Action Film Black Sands

EXCLUSIVE: Arnold Schwarzenegger is positioned to star in Black Sands, an action film which will be directed by Scott Waugh and Mike McCoy. Funded by Bill Block’s QED, the film will begin production April 1, 2012. Inside the Skip Forest-scripted film, Schwarzenegger may have a loner who wages war against a callous weapons manufacturer and also the private military inside the Southwest. A bad tone is Guy Burning meets High Flatlands Drifter. Block will probably be selling worldwide areas beginning today. Forest scripted An Excellent Day To Die Hard, which Fox is planning for production. Waugh and McCoy most recently directed Act Of Valor, an action adventure which has actual Navy Shuts. That film was acquired within an auction for distribution by Relativity Media, which paid out a $13 million minimum guarantee together with a $Thirty Dollars million P&Dedication, and scheduled the film for release on February 17, that's Leader’s Day Weekend. Al Ruddy will produce Black Sands with Block and Paul Hanson. Waugh, McCoy and Max Leitman will be the executive producers through their Bandito Brothers and sisters banner. Schwarzenegger has squarely returned to his action wheelhouse since returning to acting after ending his run as California governor. He’s shooting the Kim Jee-woon-directed The Ultimate Indicate Lionsgate, after finishing The Expendables 2. QED just completed I, Alex Mix, the Make the most of Cohen-directed thriller good James Patterson novel, with Tyler Perry playing Mix and Matthew Fox his enemy. QED may also be creating the Neil Blomkamp-directed Elysium, which stars Matt Damon and Jodie Promote. That film is presently shooting. QED and Schwarzenegger connected taken on Cry Macho, but that project is tabled for the moment. CAA reps Schwarzenegger and Forest, ICM reps the organization company directors.