EXCLUSIVE: After spending the past decade plus-directing some of the biggest tentpoles, Justin Lin is returning to his indie roots. Sources tell Deadline he is set to direct ‘The Last Days Of John Allen Chau.’ Ben Ripley is penning the script
Lin has spent the past 15 years helping turn theseries into one of the biggest franchises in the industry while also stepping in to direct the tentpolein that period as well. Even as he rose in the ranks of A-list directors, he would let it be known to be people in his inner circle that he always wanted to get back to his indie roots, and once the project landed financing the opportunity to direct the film was too hard to pass up.
Sources say a new draft of that script is due in the coming weeks, and Sony is very high on the project but wanted to give Lin the opportunity to directThe Last Days of John Allen Chauarticle of the same name published by journalist Alex Perry. The film follows Chau, who believes he has been chosen to save the souls of the uncontacted tribe of North Sentinel Island, a protected site in the Indian Ocean where outsiders are forbidden.
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