I would imagine that with the Depp and Jolie flick The Tourist not exactly setting the box office alight, the title of this movie will change before it hits cinemas, but as things stand, Mr & Mrs Smith and Bourne Identity helmer Doug Liman has signed up to produce and possibly direct a spy thriller currently called The Tourist.
Deadline says Sony has optioned Olen Steinhauer’s Milo Weaver trilogy, which is about a retired CIA agent who’s living a quiet life with a wife and kid in a brownstone in Brooklyn – that is until one of his old colleagues is pulled into a scandal that forces Weaver back into the spy game. Sony is currently planning to translate the first book of the series, The Tourist, into a pulse-pounding thriller, and so has brought Liman on board to produce and direct from a script adapted by Matt Corman and Chris Ord, the writers behind the spy drama Covert Affairs.
The Tourist was previously optioned by George Clooney’s production company, but they are no longer involved.