Script Report: MARKET FORCES
August 9th, 2004
According to the Hollywood Reporter, Warner Bros. has snactched up the rights to the Richard Morgan book "Market Forces" for Basil Iwanyk's Thunder Road to produce. according to the trade, the book is set in a near future where companies and investment firms manipulate third world countries, raise and depose tyrants, and make their money from the spoils of war. Promotions in these companies are settled by road races to the death. The protagonist is a man who rises out of one of the many ghettos via these promotions, achieving a privileged life, which he begins to question. Phil Hay and Matt Manfredi will adapt the film.
Source: The Hollywood Reporter
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