Their ultimate aim: worldwide economic domination and all it entails. It is an unprecedented consolidation of money, power, and ruthlessness. The players stand at the highest pinnacles of global finance and government.

But now Robert Ludlum, the unsurpassed master of suspense, returns with a stunning thriller for the 21st century.Secret deals are in the making, massive mysterious transactions steeped in corruption and murder. More than 20 years ago, the top CIA and KGB agents joined together to insure that, in an explosive act, the Matarese conspiracy went up in flames. 'The Matarese Circle, ' Robert Ludlum's multimillion-copy spellbinder, introduced a treacherous international cabal of powerbrokers and their hired assassins. Now the countdown begins - and Pryce is already running out of time.

But like a phoenix rising from the ashes, the Matarese dynasty is back. And we can’t wait to see what happens when Cronenberg’s offbeat sensibilities finally collide with the Hollywood machine.CIA case officer Cameron Pryce thought he'd crushed the deadly cabal of powerbrokers and assassins. The project has been fast-tracked at MGM, with filming set to start next Spring. After all, he’s resisted paycheque gigs in the past, so why start now? Michael Brandt and Derek Haas wrote the script, which we’re guessing played a large part in attracting Cronenberg. Washington – who, with all due respect to Jude Law, Viggo Mortensen and Jeff Goldblum, is automatically the biggest star Cronenberg has worked with – will play the American agent in the movie. The movie is based, like the Bourne movies, on a Robert Ludlum novel, about an American agent who must team up with his Soviet counterpart to thwart a plot to topple the world’s governments. We wouldn’t be surprised if Bruckheimer pursues his man, even to this day (can you imagine David Cronenberg’s National Treasure?)īut, perhaps encouraged that his last two movies, A History Of Violence and Eastern Promises were, superficially at least, excellent thrillers, MGM has offered Cronenberg the directing gig on a big-budget Denzel Washington Cold War thriller, The Matarese Circle.Īnd, lo and behold, at long bleedin’ last, Cronenberg has said ‘yes’. A couple of years, Cronenberg came this close to directing Basic Instinct 2, for example, while we’re sure there have been offers we haven’t been privy to. ‘Thanks, but no thanks’ came the response, and Cronenberg went about doing his own, brilliantly twisted, thang.īut Hollywood kept trying.

If you can’t quite figure out why someone who’s seen The Brood or Videodrome or Shivers or Rabid would offer the professorial Canadian director a wham-bam movie about a maverick fighter pilot, neither could he. But they were also offered to David Cronenberg to direct. What do these films have in common? Yes, they were all produced by Jerry Bruckheimer and Don Simpson.

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