Last year we reported that Darren
Aronofsky was in talks to helm the adaptation of Jason Matthews spy novel Red
Sparrow for 20th Century Fox, but now according to HV the director
has detached himself from the project and is now looking at other works as his
follow-up to the biblical epic Noah.
Fox seems keen on the project and
is now looking for a writer to adapt the scipt, and since this takes time, the
news outlet suggests that Fox could wait for the director, if he still wants
it.
Red Sparrow Official Synopsis Via
Amazon:
In present-day Russia, ruled by
blue-eyed, unblinking President Vladimir Putin, Russian intelligence officer
Dominika Egorova struggles to survive in the post-Soviet intelligence jungle.
Ordered against her will to become a “Sparrow,” a trained seductress, Dominika
is assigned to operate against Nathaniel Nash, a young CIA officer who handles
the Agency’s most important Russian mole.
As the action careens between
Russia, Finland, Greece, Italy, and the United States, Dominika and Nate soon
collide in a duel of wills, tradecraft, and—inevitably—forbidden passion that
threatens not just their lives but those of others as well. As secret
allegiances are made and broken, Dominika and Nate’s game reaches a deadly
crossroads. Soon one of them begins a dangerous double existence in a
life-and-death operation that consumes intelligence agencies from Moscow to
Washington, DC.
Page by page, veteran CIA officer
Jason Matthews’s Red Sparrow delights, terrifies and fascinates, all while
delivering an unforgettable cast, from a sadistic Spetsnaz “mechanic” who
carries out Putin’s murderous schemes to the weary CIA Station Chief who
resists Washington “cake-eaters”. Packed with insider detail, this novel brims
with Matthews’s life experience of espionage, counterintelligence, spy recruitment,
and cyber-warfare. Brilliantly composed, Red Sparrow is a masterful spy tale.
Authentic, tense, and entertaining, this novel introduces Jason Matthews as a
major new American talent.
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