Writers ready to 'Ratchet'

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By Adnan Tezer May 21, 2009, 23:19 GMT

Douglas Cook and David Weisberg have been hired to write the mystery thriller "Nick Ratchet," one of Stan Lee's POW Entertainment projects set up at Disney and based on an idea of Lee’s. Cook and Weisberg have writing credits that include Michael Bay's "The Rock" and the Ashley Judd/Tommy Lee Jones film "Double Jeopardy."According to The Hollywood Reporter, Richard LaGravenese will be handling directing duties.The story revolves around the internal struggle between a passive, ineffective police officer and his online alter-ego, a tough avatar cop named Nick Ratchet who jumps from inside a video game to present day reality to one-up the life of his creator.Larry Jacobson and Sonny Grosso are producing. Lee is exec producing with POW partner Gill Champion.

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