Brett Ratner Goes in After the Sunset

Brett Ratner has been brought in to direct New Line's After the Sunset, taking over from helmer John Stockwell, who dropped out last month due to creative differences. The film will start shooting in The Virgin Islands this October.

The movie begins where most heist movies end -- with a master thief (Pierce Brosnan) sailing off to an island paradise after his last big score. However, when his lifelong nemesis, a FBI agent (Woody Harrelson), shows up to make sure the thief is really retired, a new cat-and-mouse game of friendship, suspicion and thievery begins. Salma Hayek plays Brosnan's girlfriend.

The film is based on a Paul Zbyszewski spec script which Craig Rosenberg was recently hired to rewrite.