According to The Hollywood Reporter, James Wan has signed on to direct DEATH SENTENCE for Hyde Park Entertainment and 20th Century Fox. The film marks the first project under Hyde Park's five-year, first-look production and distribution deal signed last year with Fox.

Penned by Ian Jeffers, the story centers on a father out for revenge after his family is attacked in a senseless and heinous gang-initiation crime. The father enacts a death sentence on each perpetrator involved with the crime. Hyde Park will fully finance and produce DEATH SENTENCE, based on Brian Garfield's novel. Garfield also wrote the novel "Death Wish," which spawned the vigilante franchise starring Charles Bronson.