Universal Pictures has set up David Auburn time-travel thriller pitch "
The Archive," with the "Proof" playwright to pen the script as a directing vehicle for James Mangold.
Scott Stuber will produce with Cathy Konrad. The project came to the studio through Stuber's U-based Stuber Prods.; Konrad will produce through Tree Line Film, in which she partnered with Mangold on such films as "3:10 to Yuma" and "Walk the Line."