Gerard Butler is attached to star as Steve Vail in the adaptation of the Noah Boyd novel The Bricklayer, the first project for Millennium Films since Mark Gill took over as president, according to The Hollywood Reporter.
Gill was CEO and founder of The Film Department, an independent movie production and finance company that closed its doors in May 2011, that was best known for producing Butler's $40 million thriller Law-Abiding Citizen, which earned over $113 million worldwide.
In The Bricklayer, the main character, Vail, is a rogue former FBI agent, working as a Chicago bricklayer, whom the agency reaches out to help track down and combat a criminal group that is demanding an escalating series of multi-million dollar ransom payments.
Other cast and a director have not yet been named.
The Bricklayer is the first book in his Steve Vail series and was published in January 2010. The second, Agent X, was published in February 2011 (this novel is also known as Last Chance to Die, published in May 2011).
Noah Boyd is a pseudonym for Paul Lindsay, a former FBI agent who spent more than twenty years working on some of the Bureau's toughest investigations, including the Green River Killer case and the Highland Park Strangler case. He currently works on cold cases in addition to his writing.
Butler's producing partners Alan Siegel and Danielle Robinson are producing along with Erik Lindsay and Hanna Weg serving as executive producers. Weg (The Beautiful and the Damned) is adapting the novel for the film.
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