Cinema Science

A project based on best-selling author Robert Ludlum's 1979 novel The Matarese Circle is being pitched to nearly all the major studios with Denzel Washington attached to star. The story, from the author of the Bourne series, is about a pair of secret agents, an American and a Russian, who are forced to work together to fight a group of killers known as the Matarese — even though they both previously killed someone close to the other. Writers Michael Brandt and Derek Haas, who previously wrote 3:10 to Yuma and the upcoming Wanted, are attached to pen the project. Matarese is the only other Ludlum novel that, like Bourne, has a sequel: 1997's The Materese Countdown.