James Gray Set to Direct THE GRAY MAN

Director James Gray (We Own the Night) is attached to adapt the big screen film adaptation of Mark Greaney's thriller novel The Gray Man for New Regency. 

Here's the book description to give you an idea of what the story is about,

Court Gentry is known as The Gray Man-a legend in the covert realm, moving silently from job to job, accomplishing the impossible, and then fading away. And he always hits his target. But there are forces more lethal than Gentry in the world. And in their eyes, Gentry has just outlived his usefulness. 

Now, he is going to prove that for him, there's no gray area between killing for a living-and killing to stay alive. 

The script for the movie was written by Adam Cozad, who recently wrote the Jack Ryan franchise reboot for Paramount Pictures. 

Gray told Deadline that he "has a very specific plan to shoot the film that will distinguish it from past assassin-on-the-run thrillers like the Jason Bourne films. That is to have the point of view come from the assassin."

He tried this style in the car chase scene in We Own the Night, where Joaquin Phoenix watched from the back of a car as assassins gunned down his police chief father (Robert Duvall). "Almost every shot was from Joaquin's point of view, inside that car, and I want to make a whole movie with that POV," Gray said. He's a fan of Paul Greengrass's Bourne films, but wanted a different approach than one Greengrass used so effectively. "What he did was a documentary-style objective approach, and he owns that style. I want to do the opposite, which feels like a good way to sympathize with a professional hitman. You humanize him by never distancing yourself from his experience. This story has emotional stakes that enable me to do that."

This sounds like it could end up being a pretty cool movie, what do you all think?