Fox's adaptation of Jason Matthews' spy novel Red Sparrow has been in the
ether for awhile without a star attached to it, but that could be about to
change. According to Deadline, Jennifer Lawrence is circling the project, which
is set in present-day Russia and follows an intelligence officer named Dominika
Egorova, a trained seductress assigned to retrieve intelligence from a young
CIA officer. The plan is for Lawrence to reteam with her Hunger Games director
Francis Lawrence.
Deadline says the project was being developed specifically for Lawrence,
but Rooney Mara was the one the studio first offered the role back when David Fincher
was in talks to direct. Darren Aronofsky was for a brief moment attached to
direct.
Justin Haythe was brought onboard to rewrite the script penned by American
Hustle's Eric Warren.
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.
Source - Deadline
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