Sierra Pictures has come on to finance and produce the indie movie “Ciudad,” which John Pogue (“The Quiet Ones”) will direct from a script by Joe Russo (“Captain America: The Winter Soldier”).
Joe Russo created the upcoming Oni Press graphic novel along with brother Anthony Russo, Ande Parks and Fernando Leon. It’s unclear when “Ciudad” will hit stores.
Story follows a weary mercenary who is hired by a Brazilian drug lord to extract his daughter from one of the world’s most dangerous and corrupt cities — Paraguay’s Ciudad del Este.
Dwayne Johnson was attached to star in a previous incarnation of the project that would’ve been financed by Emmett/Furla Films.