Paul Greengrass must be on a bit of a high after his recent film CAPTAIN PHILLIPS received a bunch of Oscar nominations as he’s slated to adapt David Ignatius’ spy book ‘The Director’. Interestingly this is the first Ignatius adaptation to hit the cinema since ‘Body of Lies’.
‘The Director’ isn’t even out until June so don’t get your hopes up too quickly, although judging by the synopsis it does sound like your typical CIA film:
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. Like the new world of cyber-espionage from which it’s drawn, The Director is a maze of deception and double-dealing— about a world where everything is written in zeroes and ones and nothing can be trusted.
What do you think- is this any different from any other spy movie? Let us know!
Source: FirstShowing
