MUMBAI: Warner Bros. has picked up the spec script Trans Am by Matt Johnson. The Southern-fried buddy action script centers on a disgraced sheriff‘s deputy and a repentant getaway driver who must elude a federal manhunt when they join forces to bring an escaped bank robber to justice. The action unfolds along the Mississippi River in the vein of a Deep South-set 48 HRS.
Matt Reilly will oversee the project for Warners.
Johnson was recently hired to adapt the Red 5 comic book Afterburn for Relativity and producers Neal Moritz and Tobey Maguire.
His credits include 2004‘s Warners thriller Torque and the 2005 Jessica Alba film Into the Blue.
Recently he penned the road-race adventure Baja 1000 for Spyglass.
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