Bond Writers To Pen Original Action Thriller That Sounds Like A Fusion Of 'Indiana Jones' And 'The Constant Gardener'

Bond screenwriters Neal Purvis and Robert Wade are cooling their heels right now while MGM's financial woes keeps 007's license to kill on hold. So why not pick up another project, one that is thematically close to the great work they did on "Casino Royale" and "Quantum of Solace."

Deadline reports that Purvis and Wade are set up with Parkes/McDonald and Imagenation to develop a script for a political action thriller in which an anthropologist travels to West Africa to clear the name of a friend who has been implicated in a terrorist attack. The story, which spawned with an idea from producer Michael Lieber -- himself a former cultural anthropologist -- involves Sahara West Africa's nomadic Taureg tribes and the uranium-rich lands through which they wander. There's no director, no casting, not even a title yet. But the story fits the particular talents of the writers, so I'm curious to see what comes of this one.

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