Christopher Kyle, the man who penned sword-and-sandals epic Alexander, has signed on to adapt a rather more contemporary tale of one man's rise to dizzying heights, The Seven Sins: The Tyrant Ascending.
Written by John Land, the Las Vegas-set novel is the "globe-spanning saga of one man's spectacular rise from rags to riches, the sins that brought him there, and the insidious vendetta that may cost him everything", according to the reliable source we've meticulously researched that from.
Although the man in question, the awesomely-monikered Michael 'The Tyrant' Tiranno, is the adopted son of an Italian crime lord, the story has as much of the Ian Flemings as the Mario Puzos about it. The adaptation is designed as the first of a series of James Bond-like adventures, with Tiranno even turning Jack Bauer at one point to defend Vegas from terrorist attack.
Kyle, whose other script credits include the underrated K-19: The Widowmaker, will be submitting his draft to producers Moritz Borman and Peter Graves.
Intriguingly, the writer's websiteclaims that another adaption, Ron Rash's Depression-era novel Serena, has Darren Aronofsky attached although this falls heavily in the unsubstantiated basket. More on Aronofsky's next projects as we get it.