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Throughout the course of his eclectic career, David Gordon Green has been attached to a lot of projects. Obviously, not everything has managed to come to fruition, but one script that he has never forgotten is “One In The Chamber.” Kicking around for nearly a decade, it’s a little B-movie number that has emerged at a time when Green has some interesting career ambitions.

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“I’d also like to start a straight-to-video action company that just does genre movies. Me and my friend Darius [Shahmir] just finished the script called ‘One in the Chamber,’ ” he said in 2008. “It’s just a guy going to get his kidnapped son out of prison. Give me a couple million bucks to go explore some schlock. I’d like to be the next Roger Corman. He would have his hand in freakin’ ‘Piranha’ but also in Fellini. I like that idea. I would love to do some genre stuff but also some crazy intimate, no-budget movies. That’s my problem. I only have one me, and I have a limited number of years before I die, and the biggest problem is that I like to do a lot of stuff that has nothing to do with movies and movies are very time-consuming, so you have to make choices, and that’s really frustrating.”

A few years later, Green decided he didn’t want to direct the movie, but shared the wild origins of the screenplay: “I wrote it with my buddy Darius when I was all drugged up on painkillers after having jaw surgery and somehow, in six days, we cranked out something we were really proud of.”

Well, the waiting game is over as Shahmir will now make his directorial debut with “One In The Chamber.” Casting is already underway and it certainly sounds like a grimy genre flick. The story follows an ex-Marine who finds himself deep in the jungles of Asia searching for his son who has been taken hostage by the most dangerous man in Cambodia. Well, you can go ahead and sign us up for this one.

As Green keeps one eye on this project, he has his Boston Marathon bombing film “Stronger” (starring Jake Gyllenhaal) coming on September 22nd.