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PROJEKT:
Fox originally acquired rights to "The Hot Zone" in 1993 and set it up with director Ridley Scott, Jodie Foster and Robert Redford. But, following a well-documented series of setbacks, the picture, then titled "Crisis in the Hot Zone," was shut down in pre-production in 1994 after Foster and Redford bowed out while producer Arnold Kopelson was mounting fictional virus thriller "Outbreak" for Warner Bros.
PRODFAKTA:
Scott McGehee and David Siegel are aiming for a winter production start, following completion of a draft penned by Erik Jendresen ("Band of Brothers," "The 300 Spartans"). McGehee said the script closely follows Richard Preston's bestseller, based on the real-life story of an Army SWAT team containing a killer virus that wiped out the primate population at a Virginia research lab in 1989. "It's a great script, very similar to the original story," he added.