Tom Butterfield

Storyline is being kept under wraps.

A young man wakes up in a high-security office, forced by a stranger to perform a series of precisely timed, dangerous tasks implicating him in a deadly crime with worldwide consequences.

Michael Pena is set to star in Taken-meets-Bourne actioner The Worker. Dan Bradley, who has worked on such films as The Bourne Legacy, Mission: Impossible – Ghost Protocol, and Expendables 3, is set to direct.

Follows a Mexican special ops agent working to take down the drug cartels who is forced to leave and, with his family, enter a protection program in Los Angeles. But when his wife and son are kidnapped, his unique set of skills come in handy.

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Logline: When a down-and-out high school counselor starts talking with a student that reminds him of himself, he decides to help the kid out by altering his transcripts.