Gere takes Spring Break with Howard
Richard Gere is to play a disgraced journalist in Spring Break in Bosnia, a comedy about chasing war criminals in the former Yugoslav republic from the Weinstein Company.
Terrence Howard, who was nominated for a best supporting actor at this year's Oscars for Hustle & Flow, will play a veteran cameraman who joins Gere in the highly dodgy mission.
Rising star Jesse Eisenberg, who played a son torn by his parents' divorce in the acclaimed drama The Squid and the Whale, will play a hotshot young reporter accompanying his older colleagues.
Spring Break in Bosnia, which is billed as a "comic thriller", follows the trio's hunt for the top war criminal in the country. Problems arise when their target mistakes them for a CIA hit squad and goes after them.
The film will be written and directed by Richard Shepard, who was behind last year's The Matador, which saw ex-007 Pierce Brosnan sending himself up as a contract killer facing a mental breakdown. Filming is to begin this summer.
Richard Gere will soon return to our screens in The Flock, in which he plays a federal agent on the trail of a missing girl.