Kurt wimmer at center of feature deal for wired magazine article ‘see no evil’

EXCLUSIVE: Parkes/MacDonald Productions and Condé Nast Entertainment have partnered on the drama feature _See No Evil_, an adaptation of a _Wired_ magazine article published in April. Kurt

Wimmer has been set to turn the article into a fictionalized drama based on Alfred Anaya, a car stereo installer in California who became in demand because of ability to design traps, or

secret compartments that often are used to conceal everything from drugs to cash and weapons. The article was written by Brendan I. Koerner and the film will be produced by Walter Parkes and

Laurie MacDonald with Marc Resteghini exec producing. CNE’s Dawn Ostroff and Jeremy Steckler also will produce, in the latest deal for a movie and TV property based on product from the

Condé Nast magazine stable. Wimmer, whose credits include _Salt_ and _Law Abiding Citizen_, most recently scripted _Point Break_ for Alcon, the remake that will star Gerard Butler, and the

Charlize Theron starrer _Agent 13_ for Universal. Once Anaya’s skill was discovered by the DEA, the feds tried to turn him as an informant. Terrified that informing on his clientele would

put his family in danger, Anaya refused. He was arrested and charged as a conspirator in a drug ring that spanned from California to Kansas. Parkes said the twists and turns of Anaya’s clash

with DEA was a strong match for Wimmer in what he said was “this remarkable story of car hacking, drug smuggling, and what happens when you go toe-to-toe with the American justice system

from written word to the big screen.” Said Wimmer: “This is a film about how what might normally be considered crippling personal pathologies and neurosis can sometimes manifest themselves

in surprising and constructive ways – particularly when people are trying to kill you. Apart from the people trying to kill you part, that’s the story of my life — I had to write it.” WATCH

ON DEADLINE The pic will be produced through Parkes/MacDonald Imagenation, the partnership between the producers and the Abu Dhabi Media Company formed in 2009 to buy material and fund

development. CAA reps all the parties in the deal and CNE is lawyered by Ziffren Brittenham and Parkes/MacDonald by Wendy Heller Law.