BERLIN: SPWA shoots for '2 Guns'

BERLIN --- The new sony Pictures Worldwide Purchases is approaching. a multi-territory deal for Denzel Washington and Mark Wahlberg starrer ''2 Guns.'' The $80 million pic, which Emmett/Furla Films and Universal Pictures are fully financing, is helmed by ''Contraband'' director Baltasar Kormakur. Mark Damon's Experience Limitless and John O'Shea's The Exchange happen to be shopping the project to purchasers in the European Film Market in Berlin now and also the project did not take lengthy to warm up the marketplace because the fest unspooled on Thursday. Kormakur is pointing from the script by Blake Masters (''Brotherhood''). Pic, which Uni will release locally at the end of 2013, is definitely an adaptation of Steven Grant's graphic novel ''2 Guns,'' which sees a DEA agent as well as an undercover Naval Intelligence officer who've been assigned with looking into each other but find they've both been setup through the mob , the org the 2 males believe they've been stealing money from , to steal $81 million in the CIA. The mismatched pair must eventually learn how to trust one another and interact to search towards the fact and survive. Marc Platt will make the pic with Randall Emmett and George Furla. Picture Entertainment's Stepan Martirosyan and Remington Chase, who conserve a film fund with Emmett/Furla, will professional produce. Contact Diana Lodderhose at diana.lodderhose@variety.com