ZDF Businesses makes its way into 'Killing House'

BERLIN -- ZDF Businesses, the commercial arm of German pubcaster ZDF, has boarded Mythic Worldwide Entertainment's action-thriller "The Killing House." Directed by Mythic's Jonathan British ("Ironclad), pic is occur the field of the SAS, the British Army's Special Air Service unit, and follows a police officer who questions his morality following a particularly brutal mission. Mythic describes the experience-packed story and conspiracy-laden plot as "similar to the 'Bourne' films and classics for example 'Three Times of the Condor.'" The offer was brokered by Margrit Staerk, ZDF Enterprises' director of movies. It is the latest acquisition for ZDF Businesses, that has been intensifying its concentrate on worldwide indies and nabbing all privileges to the pick-ups. The organization lately acquired Ami Canaan Mann's "Texas Killing Fields," starring Mike Worthington and Jeffrey Dean Morgan Stephen Sommers' "Odd Thomas," with Anton Yelchin and Take advantage of Cohen's "I, Alex Mix," starring Tyler Perry. "The Killing House" is slated to start filming in May within the U.K., Germany, Belgium and Hungary. Casting is presently going ahead around the project. Mythic Worldwide Entertainment's Andrew Curtis and Ron Benattar are creating together with British, who also helmed the business's medieval actioner "Ironclad," starring Paul Giamatti and James Purefoy. Contact Erectile dysfunction Meza at staff@variety.com