Randall Wallace is set to direct the action-adventure thriller The Swiss Guard off his screenplay. Cameras will roll this fall in Rome, and casting is already underway.The project is set in the modern-day Vatican and centers around a plot to kidnap the newly installed Pope who has committed himself to total reform of the Church and its finances.
When a corps of assassins enter the Vatican, all that stands between them and their mission is a woman, the first female Swiss Guard, who has just been summoned by the Pope to help him confront a mysterious past and a dangerous future.Wallace will also produce along with Bruce Hendricks, former President of Production at The Walt Disney Studios.
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