Warner Bros. is traveling back to the 13th century journey of Marco Polo for a feature, attaching Francis Lawrence ("I Am Legend") to direct and setting up the project with Erwin Stoff at 3 Arts Entertainment.
Warners moved this week to buy a pitch preemptively from the writing team of Adam Cooper and Bill Collage, who are penning the script. Sarah Schechter is overseeing for the studio.
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