Black Water Transit Gets a New Director

According to ProductionWeekly the director of American History X, Tony Kaye is taking over duties for the new Bruce Willis / Sam Jackson flick Black Water Transit

 

Doug Richardson, scripted the adaptation of the Carsten Stroud’s novel which is a high-voltage tale of betrayal, revenge, and redemption — deeply rooted in the violent underworld of East Coast crime. Successful businessman Jack Vermillon, (Jackson) owner of a container ship company, is desperate to help his son, an ex-junkie charged with trafficking and armed robbery.

 

Although Jack cannot get him out of jail, he might be able to get him moved from a maximum-security prison–if he can give law-enforcement officials something in trade. When tough-guy Earl Pike, (Willis) a military man with high-level CIA contacts, approaches Jack about shipping his personal gun collection out of the country–a highly illegal move–Jack figures he has something for the feds. The bust is set to go down, but all hell breaks loose, and when the shooting stops, three federal agents and a member of the NYPD are dead. Now the feds are interested in pinning the fiasco on Jack, and so is Earl Pike.