'Dark Knight' producer developing 'Damascus'

February 04, 2009 Charles Roven, the producer behind the summer blockbuster, and frequent collaborator Richard Suckle are developing "Damascus Gate," a political thriller involving a journalist and a group of extremists in modern-day Jerusalem. Roven will produce via his Atlas Entertainment banner; Eric Warren Singer will pen the screenplay and exec produce. Based on Robert Stone's 1998 novel, which Sony has acquired, "Gate" is set in a world in which a groundbreaking accord between Palestinians and Israelis is nearly complete when a burned-out journalist comes upon an extremist plot to sabotage the effort.

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