Writer of the travesty that was Turistas, Michael Ross has been hired to rewrite the action thriller Disavowed.

The film will follow a group of military prisoners in the US who are secretly dispatched to the African nation of Eritrea to retrieve a bio-chemical weapon that has gone missing. If they are successful in getting it back, their prison sentences will be pardoned.

An early draft was written by Philip Shelby. Ross is still attached to the scripts of Cartagena and the upcoming remake of Near Dark.