While many moviegoers were shocked to see Paul Greengrass and Tom Hanks among those snubbed at yesterday’s Academy Award nominations, Captain Phillips has still been recognised for “Best Picture” and Greengrass is already lining up his next project. Michael De Luca’s first move as Sony Pictures’ new production president has been to reteam with Captain Phillips producer Scott Rudin and director Paul Greengrass for a big screen adaptation of David Ignatius’ novel, The Director.
The book isn’t actually set to hit stores until June, and Deadline has no additional details on when production might start and certainly nothing on a possible release date. However, the synopsis for The Director does give us an idea as to what we should expect from the eventual movie.
Graham Weber has been director of the CIA for less than a week when a Swiss kid in a dirty T-shirt walks into the American consulate in Hamburg and says the agency has been hacked, and he has a list of agents’ names to prove it. This is the moment a CIA director most dreads. Weber isn’t sure where to turn until he meets a charismatic (and unstable) young man named James Morris who runs the Internet Operations Center. He’s the CIA’s in-house geek. Weber launches Morris on a mole hunt unlike anything in spy fiction—one that takes the reader into the hacker underground of Europe and America and ends up in a landscape of paranoia and betrayal.
While movies about hackers have something of a mixed record, it’s hard to imagine this one being anything other than great in the hands of the man who brought us the two best Bourne movies. What do you guys think? Be sure to let us know your thoughts in the comment sections below.
