UNFAMILIAR TERRITORY FOR CRONENBERG
It’s understandable for Denzel Washington to star in an adaptation of a Robert Ludlam spy novel, but David Cronenberg to helm? Hmmm. According to the Hollywood Reporter, the quirky Canadian auteur is in negotiations to direct The Matarese Circle, a political thriller derived from a Robert Ludlum conspiracy novel about two rival intelligence agents--one American, one Soviet--who find themselves working together to ferret out and vanquish members of a mysterious group of criminals called the Matarese that has infiltrated the highest levels of American government. Not necessarily the intimate History of Violence territory we are used to from Cronenberg, but I could see his stamp on this.
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