CBS Films picks up action pitch “Vengeance from writer Robert Mark Kamen:

“Basically, it’s a contemporary revenge love story — what happens when violence meets love,” Kamen said. “The main characters are 20 and Italian, and there are themes that echo films like ‘The Godfather.’ It’s about family loyalty and how much someone owes their family and the past. It’s not set in the gangster milieu but just outside it.”

Kamen, whose first writing credit was for the movie Taps in 1981, has numerous other credits including The Karate Kid (1984), Gladiator (1992), Lethal Weapon 3 (1992), The Fifth Element (1997), The Transporter (2002), and Taken (2008/I).