Shawn Christensen To Write The Man From Nowhere Redo For Dimension Films

EXCLUSIVE: Bob Weinstein and SVP Matthew Signer acquired rights to the South Korean action thriller The Man From Nowherethis year and will supervise development of their English-language take. Weinstein personally sought out Shawn Christensen after reading the spec draft of the writer’s Abduction, which was sold last year in a bidding war to Lionsgate. Directed by Lee Jeong-beom, the original Nowhere follows aquiet pawnshop keeper with a violent past who takes on a drug- and organ-trafficking ring to save the child who is his only friend. The film opened No. 1 at the Korean box office in August 2010 and held the top spot for five weeks in a row, becoming that year’s highest-grossing Korean film. Christensen recentlywon the International Audience Award for Curfew, which he wrote, directed and starred in, at the Clermont-Ferrand Film Festival in France, one of the world’s most important short film events. Lionsgate will soon release Enter Nowhere, which he co-wrote with Jason Dolan. He previously sold the Black List spec Karma Coalition to Warner Bros and is developing Sidney Hall with Scott Free, which he co-wrote with Dolan.Christensen is repped by Verve, Caliber Media and attorney Alan Hergott.