One of my favorite directors, David Cronenberg, is set to directTom Cruise and 
Denzel Washingtion in The Matarese Circle, an adaptation of the Robert Ludlum thriller for MGM.
Cruise will go into a confrontation with Washington as two bitter enemy spies who, after spending two decades trying to kill each other, grudgingly team up against the Matarese, a powerful group at the root of a conspiracy reported by Vareity.
The script by Michael Brandt and Derek Haas (Wanted) modernizes Ludlum’s original Cold War premise.
MGM also attain “The Matarese Countdown,” giving the studio a shot at creating a franchise, as Universal did with Ludlum’s “The Bourne Identity.”
The plan is to get the movie in production later this year after Cruise stars next with Charlize Theron in The Tourist.
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