Marc Forster (“Quantum of Solace” and “Finding Neverland”) has been attached to direct “The Chancellor Manuscript”, an adaptation of the Robert Ludlum novel, for Paramount.

Peter O’Brien will adapt the political thriller from the author of the “Bourne Identity”.

The book’s official synopsis reads;

“Did J. Edgar die a natural death?… or was he murdered?

Inver Brass—a group of high-minded and high-placed intellectuals who see a monstrous threat to the country in Hoover’s unethical use of his scandal-ridden private files. They decide to do away with him—quietly, efficiently, with no hint of impropriety. Until best-selling thriller writer Peter Chancellor stumbles onto information that makes his precious books like harmless fairy tales. Now Chancellor and Inver Brass are on a deadly collision course, spiraling across the globe in an ever-widening arc of violence and terror. Hurtling toward a showdown that will rip Washington’s intelligence community apart—leaving only one damning document to survive…”

Douglas Wick is producing “Chancellor Manuscript” alongside Leonardo DiCaprio, who is expected to star in the film.

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By Costa Koutsoutis (Source: Variety)