WB locks up deal for prison riot tale

November 13, 2008 Warner Bros. has picked up the Delta Force prison project, an action thriller written by Ari Rubin with Francis Lawrence attached to direct. Cuban and American prisoners seized control of the maximum security facility and took more than 100 federal prison staff members hostage. The situation was so extreme that the FBI's hostage rescue team was ill-equipped to handle the riots, and Delta Force, the Special Forces detachment, was called in to retake the prison.

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