EXCLUSIVE: In a competitive situation, Boies/Schiller Film Group has optioned rights to David Ignatius’ CIA thriller novel The Quantum Spy for series development, marking the company’s …
is set to pen the adaptation and will also executive produce and serve as showrunner. Casting for the lead role is already underway.is rooted in reality, a story ripped from today’s headlines: The 21st century’s biggest challenge is a secret twilight struggle between the U.S. and China for mastery of quantum computing technology that is the new Manhattan Project. Hyper-fast quantum computers are the digital equivalent of a nuclear bomb, able to shred military-grade encryption and crack any code.
In the book, when America’s top-secret quantum research lab is compromised by a Chinese mole, newly-assigned Chinese-American CIA officer Harris Chang is tasked with his first mission for the Agency: hunt down the traitor. Soon, he’s caught in an ever-expanding maze of spymasters, assassins and temptations. And Chang’s investigation will turn into his personal obsession.
BSFG president Zack Schiller is executive producing, alongside Anonymous Content’s Alex Goldstone and Flame Ventures’ Tony Krantz , which he co-founded with attorney David Boies in 2012. Since then, the company has been behind such films asCountdown, The Starling, The Babysitter 2Ignatius is an award-winning Washington Post columnist who has covered international affairs and the CIA for more than 25 years.
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