Charlize Theron circling Haggis thriller

Paul Haggis might have been working hard on the script for Against All Enemies, the adaptation of Richard Clarke's memoir about the US government's failure to heed the warnings before 9/11, but he's sneaked another film into his list before that gets going.

He's got Tommy Lee Jones and Charlize Theron interested in an untitled mystery thriller that sees a veteran father going looking or his son, who has just come home from Iraq and gone AWOL. The script is based on a Playboy article called Death And Dishonour by Mark Boal, which chronicled the true story of a military father who rejected the Army's announcement about his son. He ended up finding a murder.

Haggis fictionalised the story with help from Boal and has penned the script. Jones is lined up to play the father, which Theron as a police office. If they can lock their deals in place, Haggis plans to call action in November.