Isn't it a bit silly to write a screenplay for a case currently being hotly investigated that has an uncertain outcome?
--- Dennis Claxton <ddclaxton at earthlink.net> wrote:
> Mann Battles with Depp for Spy Movie
>
> Monday, January 15, 2007
>
>
> HOLLYWOOD - Director Michael Mann has entered the
> race against Johnny
> Depp to make a film about Alexander Litvinenko, the
> ex-KGB agent who
> was fatally poisoned in London last year.
> []
>
> Mann's film is based on the unpublished book Death
> of a Dissident,
> which is being written by Litvinenko's widow Marina
> and Alex
> Goldfarb, who reportedly had close ties with the
> spy.
>
> The movie will focus on the Russian power structure
> enforced by the
> KGB and its successor the FRS and the "Wild West
> capitalism" that
> followed glasnost, with Litvinenko caught in the
> middle.
>
> Meanwhile, Depp's production company and Warner
> Bros. have just
> announced plans to make a film based on the book
> Sasha's Story: The
> Life and Death of a Russian Spy, which is currently
> being written by
> New York Times London Bureau Chief Alan Cowell.
>
> British police are still investigating Litvinenko's
> death, after
> traces of lethal radiation were found in his body
> when he was
> admitted to hospital three weeks before he died.
>
> http://www.hollywood.com/news/detail/id/3608468
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