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Denzel Washington will star in "Book of Eli," a post-apocalyptic drama that will be directed by Allen and Albert Hughes.
Alcon Entertainment is financing the film and Warner Bros. will distribute.

Washington will portray a lone hero in a not-too-distant apocalyptic future who must fight across America to bring society the knowledge that could

be the key to its redemption.

Gary Whitta wrote the script, and Anthony Peckham did the rewrite.

Joel Silver is producing with Washington, Susan Downey and Alcon co-founders Andrew Kosove and Broderick Johnson. Shooting begins in January.

Washington most recently starred with John Travolta in the Tony Scott-directed "The Taking of Pelham 123."

The Hughes sibs are making the project their first drama since 2001's "From Hell."

Whitta adapted the Katsuhiro Otomo graphic novel "Akira" into two films for Warner Bros. and Legendary Pictures. Peckham scripted "The Human Factor," which Clint Eastwood will direct and also rewrote "Sherlock Holmes" for WB.

Knocking "Avatar" off its box office perch is no easy task, but Denzel Washington's "The Book of Eli" accomplished that feat on Friday. The post-apocalyptic thriller gave Washington his second best opening Friday after "American Gangster" with a strong $11.7 million. That's pretty impressive considering "Eli's" R-rating and the competition from "Avatar." The Hughes Brothers' latest looks like it will do anywhere from $40-45 million for the four-day Martin Luther King Day weekend which means recouping its reported $80 million budget should be an easy task. In fact, "Eli's" expected success along with "The Blind Side's" massive box office take makes »


- Gregory Ellwood