McG To Enter Summit Entertainment's Puzzle Palace

Ahhh McG, not a name that is usually greeted with a great deal of enthusiasm when it's linked with a project. Personally I think his first 'Charlie's Angels' movie was exactly what a movie based on that TV show should be, the recent TV revamp missed the point.

Of course he blew a lot of smoke up a lot of assess with 'Terminator Salvation', and even though I personally really like the film for the most part, the fanbase and general audience did not and it was pretty much a flop. So he'll be looking to get back on track with 'This Means War', which I think looks good from the trailer even though TMT's co head honcho Jamie does not!

This new project he is attached to sounds pretty cool and the writers previous script 'Safe House' was really good, so I am cautiously optimistic.

The Hollywood Reporter got the scoop.

McG is in negotiations to helm Summit’s Puzzle Palace, a thriller written by Safe House scribe David Guggenheim and being produced by Twilight mavens Temple Hill.

The story centers on the son of a veteran police officer  who learns his father is framed for murder. When he finds out that there is evidence hidden that could free his father, he is determined to find it, even though it means breaking into One Police Plaza, the most secure building in all of New York City. He ends up being locked inside the police HQ with crooked cops on his tail.

McG is already familiar with Guggenheim’s work. He is exec producer in Medallion, a thriller Guggenheim wrote. That project is in post-production and stars Nicolas Cage and Malin Akerman.

McG, repped by WME, is in post on This Means War, the action movie starring Chris Pine, Tom Hardy and Reese Witherspoon.