After the huge, deserved success of CAPTAIN PHILLIPS, director Paul Greengrass is turning his attention to the true-life story of a former Islamic radical who became a double agent for the British and Danish.
We’re hearing that THE BOURNE ULTIMATUM man will be adapting ‘Agent Storm: My Life Inside Al Qaeda and the CIA‘. It’s not quite released yet, but will be later this year, and is written by Morten Storm, alongside Paul Cruickshank and Tim Lister. It tells the fictional-sounding story of his life as a double agent for the CIA and British and Danish intelligence, a quite unique tale indeed and will be produced by Scott Rudin with Sony Pictures.
It’s published in the UK on September 2nd and goes with these official words:
Morten Storm was an unlikely Jihadi. A six-foot-one red-haired Dane, Storm spent his teens in and out of trouble. A book about the Prophet Mohammed prompted his conversion to Islam, and Storm sought purpose in a community of believers. He attended a militant madrasah in Yemen, named his son Osama, and became close friends with Anwar al-Awlaki, the American-born terrorist cleric. But after a decade of Jihadi life, he not only repudiated extremism but, in a quest for atonement, became a double agent for the CIA and British and Danish intelligence.
Click the link for more details, I’d love to see what he can with this story and we definitely know that Greengrass can turn his hand effortlessly at action coupled with real-life – In fact, he’s brilliant at it. It’s very early days of course, but we’ll bring you the latest from AGENT STORM as we hear it.
Source: Deadline
