Universal Pictures Picks up ARABIAN KNIGHTS

Universal Pictures is in final negotiations to acquire a film pitch from screenwriter Kyle Ward called Arabian Knights. There’s not much information of the project other then it’s described as being "radically different" from FilmDistrict's Arabian Nights, with Liam Hemsworth and Anthony Hopkins attached to star. 

Blacklight Transmedia's Zak Kadison will produce with Brian Grazer and Erica Huggins of Imagine Entertainment, while Eric Lieb will exec produce. Jeff Kirschenbaum and Kiska Higgs will oversee the project for Universal.

Universal previously bought Ward's Fiasco Heights. He also wrote Kane & Lynch and Hitman 2. He is currently writing the big screen adaptation of the video game Devil May Cry.