Director of THE AMERICAN to take on A MOST WANTED MAN

Movie by Joey Paur

The director of the George Clooney film The American, Anton Corbijn, is set to develop a film adaptation of the John le Carre novel A Most Wanted Man. The script for the film was written by Andrew Bovell (Edge of Darkness), and the story is a political thriller that "follows a British banker who tries to help a young Muslim immigrant, the son of a Chechen peasant and a Russian officer, targeted by the U.S., British and German secret services after he is taken in by a Turkish family in Hamburg." The film is set to go into production this winter. I didn't really care for The American, and this film sounds like it will have that same kind of slow pacing, but maybe the story will be better. What are your thoughts on these kinds of films?

Here's a description from the book:

A half-starved young Russian man is smuggled into Hamburg in the dead of night with an improbable amount of cash secreted in a purse around his neck. He is a devout Muslim. Or is he? He says his name is Issa.

Annabel, an idealistic young German civil rights lawyer, determines to save Issa from deportation, even if the price is her career—and her safety. Searching for clues to his mysterious past, she confronts the incongruous sixty-year-old scion of a failing British bank—and a triangle of impossible loves is born.

Meanwhile, scenting a sure kill in the "War on Terror," the rival spies of three nations converge upon the innocents.

Thrilling, compassionate, peopled with characters the reader never wants to let go, A Most Wanted Man is a work of deep humanity with uncommon relevance to our times.

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