Universal has announced that they’ve attached director Ron Howard to helm their adaptation of Robert Ludlum’s novel, The Parsifal Mosaic. The book follows a CIA operative who believes he witnessed the assassination of his lover, who had been identified as a KGB agent. However when he sees her on a crowded railways platform in Rome, it sets him on a race around the world to uncover what’s going on (why are all news stories today about spy thrillers?).
Despite having a name reminiscent to The Da Vinici Code, The Parsifal Mosaic is a very different beast to the Dan Brown novels that Howard has previously brought to the big screen. To be honest though, while he won an Academy Award for the overrated A Beautiful Mind, we’re not actually convinced he’s that great a filmmaker, but there’s no doubt that his movies make money, so you can understand why Universal would want him behind the camera.
There’s no news yet of when The Parsifal Mosaic might go into production, although David Self (The Road To Perdition, The Wolf Man) is currently working on the script,