Peter Landesman, Brad Weston and Graham King want to build the next-generation spy movie.
Landesman, a journalist-turned-screenwriter, has sold an original pitch developed with Weston to King, who will produce through his Gk Films. Weston also is producing.
With the involvement of longtime CIA case officer Robert Grenier, the filmmakers aim to explore a previously unseen section of the intelligence world.
"As someone who glanced against the world of spies as a journalist, I wanted to be surprised again," Landesman said. "The operative and intelligence world is a layer cake: the deeper you go, the more covert, the more dangerous.
"The spy genre has tapped most layers, but as an investigative journalist, I began to get wind of one that remained elusive: a layer of operative and intelligence gathering that is virtually without oversight, directed by a small handful, who do things no one will hear of, occasionally at cross-purposes with agencies like the CIA.
Landesman, a journalist-turned-screenwriter, has sold an original pitch developed with Weston to King, who will produce through his Gk Films. Weston also is producing.
With the involvement of longtime CIA case officer Robert Grenier, the filmmakers aim to explore a previously unseen section of the intelligence world.
"As someone who glanced against the world of spies as a journalist, I wanted to be surprised again," Landesman said. "The operative and intelligence world is a layer cake: the deeper you go, the more covert, the more dangerous.
"The spy genre has tapped most layers, but as an investigative journalist, I began to get wind of one that remained elusive: a layer of operative and intelligence gathering that is virtually without oversight, directed by a small handful, who do things no one will hear of, occasionally at cross-purposes with agencies like the CIA.
- 4/20/2010
- by By Jay A. Fernandez
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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