'Agent Storm' is planned as a movie
The memoir of an Al Qaeda double agent will be released this August and 'Captain Phillips' helmer Paul Greengrass could direct the film adaptation.
'Agent Storm' is by Morten Storm with Paul Cruickshank and Tim Lister.
A movie adaptation of the upcoming book 鈥淎gent Storm: My Life Inside Al-Qaeda and the CIA鈥� by Morten Storm is already being planned.
According to the Hollywood Reporter, Sony Pictures has acquired the book and director Paul Greengrass, who was behind the Oscar-nominated 2013 movie 鈥淐aptain Phillips鈥� as well as the 2006 movie 鈥淯nited 93,鈥� is 鈥渆yeing it as a directorial project and may also adapt it,鈥� writes writer Rebecca Ford, while says Greengrass "will develop to direct."
鈥淎gent Storm鈥� is an account of how Storm, a one-time Jihadi, became a double agent for the CIA, spying on Al Qaeda. The book is scheduled to be released on Aug. 19.