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Source:Variety

November 20, 2008

Robert Schwentke is attached to direct the serial killer thriller Venus Fixer for New Line and Mandalay Pictures, says Variety. Author J.C. Pollack wrote the script credited under the pseudonym James Elliott.

Based on a true story, the project centers on a Holocaust survivor recruited by the American military to track a serial killer on the rampage in postwar Berlin. He must partner with a German cop who had been his friend and colleague before the Nazi regime came to power.

Mandalay president Cathy Schulman is producing Venus Fixer. Variety adds the company is still developing a remake of The Birds with Universal Pictures and director Martin Campbell.

Schwentke's credits include the Jodie Foster thriller Flight Plan and the 2002 German film Tattoo.