Untitled Purvis and Wade Action Thriller

Plot Summary:

Screenwriters Neal Purvis and Robert Wade (who together penned such Bond titles as "Casino Royale" and "Quantum of Solace") have been hired to pen an original action thriller based on a concept from Michael Lieber and Walter Parkes. The story takes place among the nomadic Taureg tribes of West Africa, an area rich with uranium that has become a focal point for both energy companies and terrorist states. An American anthropologist is thrust Into this geopolitical mess when he must travel back to the Sahara to help a former research subject who has been accused of a terrorist attack.