Fan favorite Darren Aronofsky, director of provocative, sexually charged thrillers and dramas like Black Swan, is being courted to bring that eye to the world of espionage.
Despite currently still finishing up work on next March’s Noah with Russell Crowe, the Requiem for a Dream auteur has begun early negotiations to direct an adaptation of Red Sparrow by Jason Matthews.
The book in question follows modern day Russian intelligence officer Dominika Egorova as she struggles against the mechanic nature of post-Soviet Moscow when she is cast against her will into seducing a fresh-off-the-farm CIA agent named Nathaniel Nash. Their affair takes on even darker contours when the sexual chemistry threatens to turn her for the Americans.
Granted, while I have not read the book, it seems incredibly similar to From Russia With Love’s initial salvo, save for a changing of perspectives (and Russian governments). Still, if anyone can do a lot with a premise seeped in paranoia, sex and self-doubt, it would be Aronofsky. The Edward Snowden story doesn’t hurt either.
SOURCE: Deadline