Tag: Robert Ludlum
Must Watch: THE BOURNE LEGACY Trailer and Poster
Universal Pictures has released the long awaited trailer and official poster for Tony Gilroy‘s upcoming film The Bourne Legacy.
In the next chapter of the hugely popular espionage franchise that has earned almost $1 billion at the global box office, The Bourne Legacy introduces us to a new hero (Jeremy Renner) whose life-or-death stakes have been triggered by the events of the first three films. This August 3rd, prepare for the unexpected.
Frank Marshall To Direct Covert One
Frank Marshall will be directing an adaptation of a series of books called the Covert One series.
So, although the Jason Bourne franchise is dead at this moment, we have new adventure story on a way.
New franchise? Why not, after all “a top-secret team of political and technical experts who fight corruption and conspiracy at the highest and most dangerous levels of society” already sound’s like something that could be interesting to see on a big screen…
“An unknown virus has emerged, and with time running out for all of humanity, it’s up to disease expert and former secret agent Colonel Jonathan Smith to isolate the source of the outbreak and expose the culprit responsible in an action-packed thriller penned by Bourne Identity author Robert Ludlum with several other authors.
Colonel Smith is not only one of the country’s best-known disease experts, he was also a top agent in the highly classified Covert One agency that reports directly to the president of the United States.
Paul Greengrass’ Final Word on Bourne
We sure enjoyed watching the Bourne trilogy story with Matt Damon in the leading role, but seems like his mission this time really ends…
Everything started with The Bourne Identity, 2002 spy film based on Robert Ludlum‘s novel of the same name, directed by Doug Liman. In very short time, movie recevied a positive critical and public reaction, so it was pretty logical that Jason Bourne’s adventures are not over.
Marc Forster To Adapt Ludlam’s “Chancellor Manuscript”
Marc Forster has signed on to direct “The Chancellor Manuscript” which will star Leonardo DiCaprio.
“The Chancellor Manuscript” is based on Robert Ludlum‘s political thriller novel of the same name.
Peter O’Brien will adapt the story, earlier penned by Michael Seitzman and Alessandro Camon.
The story centers on Peter Chancellor (DiCaprio), who turns in a novel about D.C. power brokers who are blackmailed into altering U.S. policies. When some operatives get hold of the manuscript, they think he has uncovered their actual scheme and try to hunt the author down.
Paramount will be the studio behind the project.
Ron Howard Directing Ludlum’s Parsifal Mosaic
Universal Pictures has attached Ron Howard to direct “The Parsifal Mosaic,” an espionage thriller written by author Robert Ludlum. Ludlum is quite well known for The Bourne series of books which feature the popular spy Jason Bourne.
The 1982 book focuses on jockeying between U.S. and Soviet intelligence agents, with American spies Michael Havelock and Jenna Karas, who are partners as well as lovers, at the center of a series of crosses and double crosses. A flashback to a Nazi attack during World War II serves as a linchpin of the story.
The action in Mosaic jumps between countries such as Italy, Greece and the former Czechoslovakia. The novel is regarded as perhaps the most Cold War-centric of Ludlum’s work.
Tom Cruise To Join Washington In Movie Based On Ludlum’s Matarese Circle
As we know, Denzel Washington will star in action thriller project “The Matarese Circle” a film adaptation of Robert Ludlum’s novel. Now, Tom Cruise is in talks to join Denzel Washington, actually, he is getting ready to partner with Denzel Washington in the David Cronenberg-directed adaptation of Ludlum’s 1979 book for MGM.
Unlike in the action drama “American Gangster“, Washington would be portraying the good guy in this film. “Matarese” centers on the collaboration of two rival secret agents, an American Bradley Scofield, CIA, and a Russian KGB agent Vasili Taleniekov. The two are forced to work together after spending two decades trying to kill each other who in order to fight a mysterious murderer group called the Matarese.
“Bourne 4″ Moving Ahead With Nolfi Penning
Universal is moving forward with a fourth Jason Bourne movie, tentatively titled “Bourne 4“. The Bourne Ultimatum writer George Nolfi has been hired to pen the sequel. Nolfi’s other credits include The Sentinel, Ocean’s Twelve and Timeline.
Director Paul Greengrass and star Matt Damon are attached to the new film. The film will be produced by Frank Marshall and executive produced by Jeffrey Weiner and Henry Morrison.
MGM Buys Ludlum’s ‘The Matarese Circle’ for $3 million
With an eye on the success of the Bourne spy franchise, MGM has snapped up movie rights to another Robert Ludlum thriller.
In its first major material deal made since Mary Parent took over as head of MGM’s worldwide motion picture group, the studio ponied up for “The Matarese Circle,” a 1979 book by Robert Ludlum.
The book sold for $3 million, with another seven-figures to be paid to screenwriters Michael Brandt and Derek Haas according to Variety.
Ryan Kavanaugh’s Relativity Media will co-finance the film, and Denzel Washington is attached to star.
Like many books by the late Ludlum, “The Matarese Circle” is set during the Cold War. The book pairs rival spies, one from the CIA and the other from the KGB, who bury the hatchet for the moment because only they possess the smarts and killing abilities to go up against an international circle of criminals called the Matarese. Insiders said the Cold War tensions will be dropped and the storyline contemporized.
