THR is reporting that Joel and Ethan Coen have signed on to pen the screenplay for Dark Web, a thriller from 20th Century Fox which has previously been scripted by Dennis Lehane, author of Mystic River and Shutter Island.
Formerly titled Silk Road, Dark Web is based on a Wired magazine article from Joshuah Bearman, which “centers on a 29-year-old idealist named Ross William Ulbricht (aka Dread Pirate Roberts) who built an online illegal-drug marketplace called ‘The Silk Road’ and along the way allegedly became a murderous kingpin.”
The Coen brothers most recently wrote and directed Hail Caesar!, which was released earlier this year, and they have also written the script for George Clooney’s next film Suburbicon, which is slated to arrive in 2017.
Originally published October 16, 2016. Updated April 14, 2018.
