What Happens When Terrorists Attack Vegas?
Filed under: Action, Thrillers, Deals
This new project sounds so incredibly cheesy that I sort of expect Steven Seagal to show up in mob attire, and Sylvester Stallone to turn up as a terrorist or something and have an epic, muscley battle. Get this -- The Hollywood Reporter has posted that producers Moritz Borman and Peter Graves have scored the film rights to a novel called The Seven Sins: The Tyrant Ascending by Jon Land. The flick will follow a guy named Michael "The Tyrant" Tiranno (modeled on entrepreneur Fabrizio Boccardi), who was raised by a don from the Sicilian Mafia and becomes a real estate mogul. He builds a Las Vegas casino called Seven Sins that gets targeted, along with three other casinos, by suicidal car bombers believed to be Islamic terrorists. So of course, The Tyrant sets out to find the man responsible, which leads him to antique secrets and nonstop action.
The plan is to make this whole puppy a franchise, and I have to say -- I'm sort of glad. I'd much rather have a new weird action plot than more Rambos or other '80s franchises. But what about you? Are you hungry for The Tyrant?
Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
7-23-2008 @ 6:10PM
Eric said...
It just sounds like another mundane, irreverent attempt at making a film. Look, we don't need more of the same, we need new, gritty types of action films.
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7-23-2008 @ 5:14PM
V.M.L. said...
corny
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7-24-2008 @ 10:27AM
Argent said...
i can feel the testosterone.
so bad...yet...
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7-24-2008 @ 5:02PM
Randy Markin said...
I've read the book and it's excellent. It'll make a great movie
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7-26-2008 @ 12:07AM
Jon Land said...
Randy:
Thanks for the good word, Randy!
As the author of THE SEVEN SINS, it was nice to see your lone positive comment among the four. No coincidence, I think, that you actually read the book.
So glad you enjoyed it and love to hear from if you want to e-mail me.