Timo Tjahjanto To Direct Action Comedy ‘The Burnout’ For Miramax
Exclusive: Fresh off directing The Beekeeper 2 for Miramax, Timo Tjahjanto has come aboard to direct The Burnout for the studio, sources tell Deadline.
Interesting comps here: The Burnout is billed as The Big Lebowski meets Jason Bourne. In the film, a washed-up former CIA agent, now living as a carefree burnout in Ibiza, is reluctantly dragged back into action.
With its “back-in-action” framing, the film also feels in the vein of the Nobody actioners starring Bob Odenkirk, the second of which was directed by Tjahjanto.
Sources said the script — by Tom O’Connor, with current revisions by Hunter Toro — was brought into Miramax by Arianna D’Andrea, VP Film Production & Development. The project falls in line with Miramax CEO Jonathan Glickman’s mission to develop originals for film and TV while finding the right opportunities to mine the studio’s expansive IP library.
A genre filmmaker from Indonesia, Tjahjanto first garnered