Millennium Films announced today that Rod Lurie (Straw Dogs, Nothing but the Truth) has been tapped to direct Paul Tamasy and Eric Johnson’s (The Fighter) adaption of Jake Tapper’s “The Outpost: An Untold Story Of American Valor.”
Jeffrey Greenstein, Jonathan Yunger and Lonnie Ramati negotiated the deal on behalf of Millennium Films, with Joel VanderKloot on behalf of Jake Tapper, George Davis on behalf of Paul Tamasy and Eric Johnson, and Peter Nelson on behalf of Paul Merryman, Marc Frydman and director Rod Lurie, all out of Nelson Davis LLP.
They deserve the best, and I’m confident that Rod and screenwriters Eric Johnson and Paul Tamasy will make that happen.”
“It is an incredible honor to be a part of the team bringing ‘The Outpost’ to the big screen,” says writers Eric Johnson & Paul Tamasy.