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Vince Vaughn to produce The Risk Agent

PTI
Los Angeles, July 27, 2012

First Published: 12:59 IST(27/7/2012)
Last Updated: 19:22 IST(27/7/2012)

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Actor Owen Wilson arrives at the premiere of Hall Pass in Hollywood, California.

Hollywood funnyman Vince Vaughn has acquired the rights to produce and star in the big screen adaptation of Ridley Pearson's thriller novel, The Risk Agent.

The 42-year-old Wedding Crashers actor has teamed up with Wild West Picture Show Productions to co-produce the film with

his sister Victoria Vaughn and Sandra J Smith, reported Deadline.

The action film will follow hostage extraction specialists Grace Chu and John Knox, who are recruited by a company called Rutherford Risk to save a Chinese national and his security agent when they are snatched from the streets of Shanghai.

Vince also recently acquired the rights to Randall Wallace's Gunslingers and will next appear in alien invasion film The Watch with Jonah Hill.

He is also due to reunite with actor Owen Wilson in forthcoming comedy film Interns.