, for which he won an Academy Award, but his best stuff to me has been when he's solely on the scripting side. Million Dollar Baby
, The Last Kiss
, Letters from Iwo Jima
, Casino Royale
. I'll put all of those over Crash and In the Valley of Elah
anyday. His latest dual effort was the idiotic The Next Three Days
, which was saved only by a sterling two-minute cameo by Liam Neeson. Haggis is said to be developing an adaptation of 1980s TV series, The Equalizer
, but it looks like he'll be taking on the world of secret agents before that. 24 Frames reports that Haggis is in talks to write and maybe direct an adaptation of Daniel Silva's spy series about ex-Mossad agent Gabriel Allon. Allon led a mission to exact revenge on the terrorists responsbile for the Munich Massacre, in which several Israeli athletes were murdered during the 1972 Olympics. In response, his own family was killed, and Allon went into retirement. A decade later he is drawn back into the action. Universal is eyeing this as a possible franchise, so they may choose to adapt The Kill Artist
, Silva's 2002 book and the first in the Allon series. That story has him coming out of his self imposed exile in order to lead an assassination mission.I actually like Haggis for the most part. Just not his tendency to take great ideas and over explain them as if his audience are morons.
