Rupert Wyatt To Direct Heist Thriller ‘Boxman’ At Lionsgate

EXCLUSIVE: Lionsgate is in negotiations with Rupert Wyatt to direct the Black List screenplay Boxman from screenwriter Adam Yorke.The thriller will be produced by 42’s Ben Pugh & Josh Varney and Range Media Partners’ Brian Kavanaugh-Jones and Fred Berger. Casey Durant and AJ Bourscheid will executive produce for Range.

The film takes place after a botched bank heist leaves nineteen people locked inside a state-of-the-art vault, the FBI recruits the world’s foremost box man from federal prison so he can break them out before they suffocate inside.

Meredith Wieck and Jon Humphrey are overseeing for Lionsgate. Lionsgate’s Bonnie Stylides is negotiating the deal.

Wyatt’s many film credits include The Escapist and Rise of the Planet of the Apes. He most recently served as executive producer of the Apple TV+ series Mosquito Coast. He is represented by UTA and 42.

Yorke is represented by The Characters Literary Agency, Heroes and Villains Entertainment, and Yorn, Levine, Barnes, Krintzman, Rubenstein, Kohner, Endlich, Goodell & Gellman.