Darren Aronofsky to Direct Espionage Film RED SPARROW?
It looks like Darren Aronofsky is going to have another film project lined up after he finishes his Biblical epic Noah. According to Deadline, the director is in early talks to direct a feature film adaptation of the book Red Sparrow. It's an espionage thriller that was written Jason Matthews, and here's what the story is about.
The book is set in contemporary Russia, and state intelligence officer Dominika Egorova struggles to survive in the cast-iron bureaucracy of post-Soviet intelligence. Drafted against her will to become a “Sparrow,” a trained seductress in the service, Dominika is assigned to operate against Nathaniel Nash, a first-tour CIA officer who handles the agency’s most sensitive penetration of Russian intelligence. The two young intelligence officers collide in a charged atmosphere of trade craft, deception, and inevitably, a sexual attraction that threatens their careers and the security of America’s valuable mole in Moscow. Dominika winds up seeking revenge against her soulless masters, and living a fatal double life after she is recruited by the CIA to ferret out a high-level traitor in Washington. She also hunts down a Russian illegal buried deep in the U.S. military and, against all odds, to return to Moscow as the new-generation penetration of Vladimir Putin’s intelligence service.
Aronofsky is a crazy talented director, and this seems like it would be a really cool project for him to take on. Hopefully everything works out, because I'd like to see him do this one.