Contagion’s Scott Z. Burns is set to direct Amazon Studios The Bunker, according to Deadline. The films comes from a script by former New York Times and Vanity Fair columnist Nick Bilton, making this his first original screenplay, with Burns also producing and developing the project.
The Bunker will see a group of billionaires seeking shelter after a devastating attack against the United States. As they hide out in a luxurious underground bunker, they quickly discover it takes more than money to survive as their worst instincts begin to surface.
Though this is Bilton’s first feature film screenplay, it is not the first time some of his work has been brought to television or film. The Coen Brothers are currently adapting his book American Kingpin, the true story of programmer Ross Ulbritch and his black market website The Silk Road. Meanwhile, Hatching Twitter, another one of Bilton’s books about the creation of Twitter, is in development by Bilton as a television series over at Lionsgate.
