KILLING SEASON (In Development)

• KILLING SEASON

Millennium Films and Corsan Pictures have announcedproduction will start on January 16 for Killing Season (previously known as"Shrapnel"), starring Robert De Niro and John Travolta. Mark StevenJohnson (Ghost Rider, Daredevil) will direct from a script by Evan Daugherty(Snow White and the Huntsman).

Killing Season is an action movie set in the AppalachianMountains about an American military veteran (De Niro) who has retreated to aremote cabin in the woods. When a rare visitor, a European tourist (Travolta),appears on the scene, the two men strike up an unlikely friendship. But in factthe visitor is a former Serbian soldier bent on revenge. What follows is atense, action packed battle across some of America's most forbidding landscape thatproves the old adage: the purest form of war is one-on-one.

"I've loved this project from the moment I read EvanDaughterty's remarkable script," said Corsan CEO Paul Breuls. "It'sthrilling, imaginative, unexpected and dominated by two extraordinarycharacters on a collision course. I'm very pleased this film is moving intoproduction and to be partnered with Avi Lerner and his team atMillennium."

"We're excited to be co-financing and co-producing thisfilm with Corsan, and to be working again with Robert De Niro and JohnTravolta," said Nu Image/Millennium topper Avi Lerner. "We've neverseen these two great actors on screen together before, and we're excited to seewhat comes of the combination."