Paramount is channeling Steven Spielberg’s classic Duel with Big Rig, a thriller pitch from Bragi Schut with Michael Bay’s Platinum Dunes on board to produce, THR writes.
Plot details are being kept locked in the cab, but the project is described as taking loose inspiration from Canada’s infamous Highway of Tears, which runs through British Columbia. Over the course of four decades, numerous women have either been murdered or gone missing along that 700-plus kilometer stretch of road.
It is known that the plot centers on a good trucker who runs afoul of the evil man who is responsible for the many deaths.
Andrew Form and Brad Fuller will produce with Bay.
Schut co-wrote The Maze, a Sony thriller currently in production starring Deborah Ann Woll, Logan Miller and Taylor Russell. He also recently reteamed with Maze producer Neal H. Moritz for an untitled supernatural thriller, which has been described as being in the vein of Robert Zemeckis’ What Lies Beneath.