Whenever Ridley Scott is reported as attached to a new potential film, we picture the imaginary giant warehouse where all of the other things on his To Do list are stored, its walls bulging and its shelves groaning at the weight of books to be adapted or scripts to be read. The place had better be ready for more, as he's now in talks to direct an adaptation of Greg Rucka's graphic novel Queen And Country.
Rucka's Eisner award-winning run follows the adventures of Tara Chace, a top agent in the British Secret Intelligence Service, who is used as bait to draw out a terrorist in the wake of a terrorist attack in London. Rucka wrote the title for Oni Comics.
And this is far from the first time it has been optioned – Fox originally set it up in 2014 as a vehicle for Ellen Page to star. Yet after various script drafts and the attachment of director Craig Viveiros, nothing came of it, so the studio is trying again, hoping that its storied Alien universe director can finally make it work.
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