Back in October, it was reported that Universal was moving forward on The Janson Directive, an adaptation of a thriller by Bourne author Robert Ludlum. That project is, by all accounts, still moving forward with the studio, but they’ve also made movement on one of their several planned Ludlum adaptations in the meantime.
As Deadline tells us, Rocky director Irwin Winkler and Jose Ruisanchez will pen a film version of The Sigma Protocol, which the former will also produce, alongside Jeffrey Weiner and Ben Smith of Captivate Entertainment. The story they’re adapting follows “a man who, while vacationing in Switzerland, runs into an old friend,” watching “as the guy turns homicidal and guns down six people.” After getting “plunged into a conspiracy and [running] for his life,” he finds that a female federal agent may be his “only hope of survival from a ruthless assassin.”
Winkler said the following...
As Deadline tells us, Rocky director Irwin Winkler and Jose Ruisanchez will pen a film version of The Sigma Protocol, which the former will also produce, alongside Jeffrey Weiner and Ben Smith of Captivate Entertainment. The story they’re adapting follows “a man who, while vacationing in Switzerland, runs into an old friend,” watching “as the guy turns homicidal and guns down six people.” After getting “plunged into a conspiracy and [running] for his life,” he finds that a female federal agent may be his “only hope of survival from a ruthless assassin.”
Winkler said the following...
- 1/13/2012
- by jpraup@gmail.com (thefilmstage.com)
- The Film Stage
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