Miramax Film Group is overseeing development on Vigilant, a new thriller which is tapping James DeMonaco to direct. Tyler Stevens and Wade Stanton penned a script which later saw rewrites by DeMonaco and by Krystal and Alon Ziv.
In Vigilant, “a pilot program transforms crime fighting into a cash game, rewarding ordinary citizens for capturing wanted criminals. But as the nation races toward a vote to take the program nationwide, the line between hero and hunter disappears, and the country teeters on the brink of sanctioned chaos.”
Deadline’s Anthony D’Alessandro writes that Vigilant is “in a similar spirit” to DeMonaco’s previous work on 2013’s The Purge, which spawned a two-season TV series, and a film saga that tallied well over $530 million dollars in eight years.
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Lead image: Promo art for “The Purge” (Universal Pictures)