So Paul Greengrass didn't get all of the Oscar love for Captain Phillips that he may have hoped for, but it did earn him another Best Picture nomination. That's in the past now and it's time to move on to something new. While he still has civil rights drama Memphis coming at some point, he's moving on to more familiar thriller territory.
Greengrass is set to write and direct an adaptation of The Director, based on the upcoming cyber thriller by David Ignatius. Here's the full synopsis:
Graham Weber has been director of the CIA for less than a week when a Swiss kid in a dirty T-shirt walks into the American consulate in Hamburg and says the agency has been hacked, and he has a list of agents’ names to prove it. This is the moment a CIA director most dreads.
Weber isn’t sure where to turn until he meets a charismatic (and unstable) young man named James Morris who runs the Internet Operations Center. He’s the CIA’s in-house geek. Weber launches Morris on a mole hunt unlike anything in spy fiction—one that takes the reader into the hacker underground of Europe and America and ends up in a landscape of paranoia and betrayal.
Hacker movies? Eh. Nobody turned out for hacker flick The Fifth Estate, and that starred Benedict Cumberbatch and was based in reality. Not sure how this one will play to audiences but it's always interesting when Greengrass takes on something new. The Director won't be published until June.
