McG is chased and locked down for DEAD SPY RUNNING!

by Matt Holmes

Warner Bros, clearly content with McG's work on TERMINATOR SALVATION, have hired the 40 year old helmer to direct DEAD SPY RUNNING, an adaptation of Brit author Jon Stock's upcoming spy novel which would serve to launch the new fictional character of former MI:5 agent Daniel Marchant, who is in the vein of a Jason Bourne or James Bond. Described as "THE BOURNE IDENTITY meets John Le Carre", this reinvention of the spy genre will be an origin tale and will be published in June 2009 from HarperCollins after a publisher's bidding war. They have high hopes for the novel and WB want their piece of the 007 (Columbia), Bourne (Universal) and Jack Ryan (Paramount) pie. McG would direct at least one of the films, launching himself firmly in a similar situation as to that he is already in with the TERMINATOR franchise. Seemingly, if he has success with the first, he will be back for more. As well as being a writer, Stock is the editor of the weekend supplement of The Daily Telegraph and worked for two years as a foreign correspondent for the paper in New Dehli. This travelling culture and the journalistic background of an Ian Fleming... points towards good things for the novel and potentially this WB film. source - the hollywood reporter

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Matt Holmes is the co-founder of What Culture, formerly known as Obsessed With Film. He has been blogging about pop culture and entertainment since 2006 and has written over 10,000 articles.