Warner Bros. nabs spy thriller Unlocked

Warner Bros. has nabbed a spy thriller titled Unlocked from Peter O’Brien and have attached Lorenzo di Bonaventura and Georgina Townsley to produce, according to Variety.

Unlocked centers on a female CIA interrogator who’s duped into getting a terrorist to provide critical intel to the wrong side, thrusting her into the middle of a plot to unleash a devastating biological attack on the city of London.

According to the report, O’Brien wrote Unlocked in 2007 and the script landed on the 2008 Black List of top unproduced screenplays. Soon after, he found worked on Microsoft’s vidgame sensation Halo: Reach and wrote an adaptation of Robert Ludlum’s political thriller The Chancellor Manuscript, which has Marc Forster attached to helm.

Di Bonaventura is currently in production on Transformers 3 and in pre-production for the cop thriller Man on a Ledge for Summit Entertainment.