Another Director Leaving 'Kane & Lynch'?

The video game adaptation Kane & Lynch has two guys that, depending on the project, I can be talked into liking, Bruce Willis and Jamie Foxx. It's based on a game I hear is pretty fun and - imagine that - has a narrative that makes it a good candidate for a movie upate. But it's having trouble holding onto directors. We've seen Wayne Kramer come and go, they even made posters at Cannes heralding stunt coordinator Simon Crane's feature-directing debut, and over the past couple months, F. Gary Gray had been linked to the project. All have moved on. The Playlist cites sources (always busy guys, those sources) who say Gray has walked away from the film and that the script is being rewritten. OK: Time to blow it up. Except they can't, see, because people have already shelled out money for it. I still think sometimes the principle of throwing good money after bad applies and the more they sink into it the less chance they have to earn it back. Production is supposed to get going in September, but if it does, I wouldn't expect much. It's like hiring a new architect to build a stadium six weeks before you break ground. These things actually do take time, especially with a new script, if that's really what's going on. And the September start date is the revised schedule, meaning with all the confusion, the producers think they can get it all worked out in the next few weeks. Mercy. That date is probably forced upon the production, though, just to keep the stars attached. If you wait too long, as long as you'd expect with this kind of massive uncertainty, Kane & Lynch could probably kiss Bruce Willis goodbye. If he were to bolt, Jamie Foxx likely wouldn't hang around, and then you've got a fourth director in a year who finds himself without a cast and a script reworked by the guy who wrote The A-Team. Bleh.