“Jungle of Glass” director John McTiernan returns to directing after 20 years

Action cinema is lucky, One of the best directors of the genre of the 80s returns to directing after a 20-year hiatus: John McTiernan. McTiernan is responsible for such titles as “Predator” and “Jungle Glass” as well as “The Hunt for Red October” and “The Last Hero”, but hasn’t directed anything since 2003 after the premiere of “Basic”, a thriller starring John Travolta, Samuel L. Jackson and Connie Nielsen.

It is true that ‘Basic’ was a failure of audiences and critics, but that was not the reason for his retirement from the cinema. It is true that his directorial debut, ‘Nómadas’, went almost unnoticed, but he subsequently chained six hits in a row, from the first of ‘Predator’ to the third of ‘Die Hard’, ‘La Vendetta’, also passing through ‘Los last days of Eden’. He didn’t do badly even with “The Thomas Crown Secret”, but things started to go wrong with ‘El Guerrero nº 13’, with Antonio Banderas. It turns out that Michael Crichton, author of the novel (also author of “Jurassic Park”), hated the first version of the film and decided to reassemble it in its entirety, increasing the budget by 25 million. However, the attempt was a flop as big as the film, which is estimated to have lost between $ 70 million and $ 130 million at the time.

McTiernan was a bit traumatized and when he switched to his next project, “Rollerball”, a remake of the James Caan film, fearing the trick would repeat himself, he devoted himself to spying on producer, Charles Roven, hiring the services of the ‘private investigator Anthony Pellicano. Years later, in 2006, the FBI investigated Pellicano and McTiernan was questioned about Roven’s illegal wiretapping. In 2007 he was sentenced to 4 years in prison, but began a lengthy court case in which he pleaded innocent and guilty, and a conversation between him and Pellicano could be dismissed as evidence, until in 2010 he was again sentenced to one year in prison and a $ 100,000 fine for lying to a judge and the FBI. He appealed to the US Supreme Court and because trials are slow, he did not file bankruptcy until 2013 and entered Yankton Federal Prison, where he suffered severe depression and finished serving his sentence in custody. domiciliary.

The return

Now, according to the World of Reel media, McTiernan is ready to sit behind the cameras again and will direct a film called “Taut Ceci Foxtrot” for which he signed Travis Fimmel and Uma Thurman. He signs the script himself and as far as we know, The plot centers on a group of rebels who set out to kill oligarchs and military forces who terrorize a war-torn planet in the remote solar system of Tau Ceti.

Filming will begin in the fall in Paris. and will be produced by McTiernan, Thurman and Gail Sistrunk for Keep Your Head and The Benford Company. In social networks, the French journalist Sandra Benedetti has published a first conceptual image of the storyboard.

Des news de Tau Ceti Foxtrot, by John McTiernan. Oui, title to change. It seems that Tau Ceti 4 has given up on thinking that it is the 4th film in a saga. The scenario ended after a temps attack. Le design est sublime, the posters ci-dessous n’en est qu’un example. pic.twitter.com/dLwPlCRs66

? Sandra Benedetti (@la_rebelge) September 15, 2022

“News from John McTiernan’s ‘Tau Ceti Foxtrot’. Yes, the title changed, because ‘Tau Ceti 4’ made you think it was the fourth film in a series. The script has been finished for a while. The design is sublime. , the image below is just an example.