The recent success of novelist Robert Ludlum's Jason Bourne series on screen has prompted MGM to explore the author's back catalog. The studio is currently setting up Ludlum's 1983 novel The Matarese Circle and they've landed perennial box office power player Denzel Washington for the lead role.
Today Variety reports that David Cronenberg, who has enjoyed a career renaissance with A History of Violence and Eastern Promises, is in talks to direct. 3:10 to Yuma scribes Michael Brandt and Derek Haas are adapting Ludlum's novel.
Set at the height of the cold war, Washington will play an American spy who must team up with a Soviet spy to prevent a plot to destroy the world governments.
Source: Variety