Projected Picture Works, founded by Sean Penn, John Ira Palmer and John Wildermuth, is producing a new political thriller titled Killers & Diplomats. The film is based on an article by Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Raymond Bonner.

It tells the true story of four American missionary women raped and murdered in El Salvador in 1980 during a civil war in the Central American nation. It follows a young US diplomat who cracked the case by cultivating an improbable source — risking everything to gather the key evidence.

Killers & Diplomats is from writers Michael Nourse and John Tyler McClain, whose screenplay was featured on the 2021 Annual Black List.