Paramount Pictures

Heat meterUpdated 09.02.16: Mark Townend’s high-concept sci-fi action thriller, pitched as Looper meets Safe House, continues to burn up the market ahead of the holiday weekend, with Screen Gems, Legendary Pictures, and AG Capital being the latest to take a closer look at what has become one of the summer’s hottest specs.

Screen Shot 2015-04-30 at 2.48.33 PMPitched as Panic Room meets Die Hard, a contractor whose artist wife suffers from an illness that prevents her from being in the sunlight builds a futuristic house that blocks out any natural light. When a band of criminals attempts to break into the house to steal one of his wife’s valuable sculptures, he must evade and outsmart them to protect his home.

Screen Shot 2015-04-30 at 2.48.33 PMTells the story of the complex relationship between an Israeli Secret Service officer and his teenage Palestinian informant that grows even more morally conflicted, when the young man learns his employers are plotting to assassinate his radical brother.

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A star cop who, after being involved in a huge shootout, wakes up after 20 years to find himself in 2016. He gets back into the game and is out to find who killed his partner with the help of his partner’s risk-averse son.