Friday, January 13, 2012

Film Adaptation of Robert Ludlum's The Sigma Protocol Gets New Screenwriters

The Sigma Protocol by Robert Ludlum

Every couple of months or so film adaptations of one or more of Robert Ludlum's non-Bourne thrillers get an update. (The Bourne novels are in a category all to their own.) The lastest news is that The Sigma Protocol is getting a team of new screenwriters: Irwin Winkler — who will also produce with Captivate Entertainment, which owns the rights to Ludlum's books — and Jose Ruisanchez.

Published in 2001 just months after the author's death, The Sigma Protocol is a stand-alone … though the studio hopes its adaptation may serve as the first of a franchise. In the book, Ben Hartman is vacationing in Zurich, Switzerland when he chances upon his old friend Jimmy Cavanaugh—a madman who’s armed and programmed to assassinate. In a matter of minutes, six innocent bystanders are dead. So is Cavanaugh. But when his body vanishes, and his weapon mysteriously appears in Hartman’s luggage, Hartman is plunged into an unfathomable nightmare. Meanwhile, Anna Navarro, field agent for the Department of Justice, has been asked to investigate the sudden, random deaths of eleven men throughout the world. The only thing that connects them? A secret file, over a half-century old, that’s linked to the CIA—and is marked with the same puzzling codename: Sigma. As Anna follows the connecting thread—and Hartman finds himself on the run—she ends up in the shadows of a relentless killer who is one step ahead of her … victim by victim. Now, she and Hartman together must uncover the diabolical secrets long held behind Sigma. It will threaten everything they think they know about themselves—and confirm their very worst fears …

"What we are really hoping to do is create a franchise, built around this ordinary guy who gets caught up in international intrigue, and who teams with this operative who is declared a rogue by the CIA," said Winkler. "Unlike Bourne, who is a trained assassin, this is an innocent guy traveling in Europe who gets in way over his head. And it has all the great Ludlum intrigue."

(Related article: Deadline.)

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