Even as the Bourne franchise sits in neutral gear, other studios and production companies are looking to fill the perceived operative-on-the-run market gap with novel adaptations. New Regency is among them, and has just hired Adam Cozard to turn Mark Greaney’s thriller tome The Gray Man into a script.
In the book, we find a former CIA operative/assassin suddenly on the run from unknown forces that are looking to off him. But there’s an extra wrinkle – he has a pair of daughters who don’t even know he exists, but who he must nevertheless save from his pursuers.
The CIA really needs to do a better job of nailing down its staff – maybe if the pension options were more lucrative?
Cozad is no stranger to the spy genre – he’s hard at work on the script for the new Jack Ryan film, which may or may not be linked to Dubai, an action thriller he wrote on spec and which prolific producer Lorenzo di Bonaventura is shepherding on its way through development.