"Penetration".. de .Ridley Scott ...

Pas un film de cul , mais ce sera le prochain film (d'espionnage) de Ridley aprés American Gangter ( avec Russel Crowe et Denzel Washington pas de topic je crois )

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Warner Bros. Pictures has set William Monahan to adapt David Ignatius' Middle East espionage novel Penetration, with Ridley Scott to direct, reports Variety. De Line Pictures is producing with Scott Free.

While Monahan most recently drafted the Hong Kong hit Infernal Affairs into Martin Scorsese-directed drama The Departed, he got his start as a screenwriter by scripting the Middle East-set films Tripoli and Kingdom of Heaven for Scott.

With Penetration, they reteam on a thriller that sends a CIA operative to Jordan to track a high-ranking terrorist. The spy is aided by the head of Jordan's covert operations in an uneasy alliance that leads to cultural and moral clashes between the men.

Producer Donald De Line also is teamed with Scott on The Invisible World, a Paramount drama about the abduction of a female journalist in Iraq. It's a possible next film for Scott after he directs the Steve Zaillian-scripted American Gangster at Universal, with Denzel Washington and Russell Crowe starring.

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Riddley parle de penetration

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Director Ridley Scott Talks Penetration
Source: Edward Douglas October 7, 2006


Director Ridley Scott has been in New York City the last few months shooting his new crime drama American Gangster with Denzel Washington and Russell Crowe. With four more weeks of shooting to go, he took a break to talk with ComingSoon.net about his previous collaboration with Crowe, A Good Year. During the interview, Scott told us a bit about the next big project he has planned, currently dubbed Penetration.

"The thing I'm doing next will almost certainly be something [based on] a book coming out, which is really about what's happening now in the Middle East, our complete misunderstanding of what's going on and how we're not dealing with it. Inevitably, [it gets] into the heat in terms of a man who is actually a par journalist that gets sucked into working on a peripheral level in a special department where he gets into real trouble in the Middle East. But it's so accurate. It's by a journalist called David Ignatius. It was called ‘Penetration' which I think is a really good title for this, but it's now changing. It's coming out next March. It's a fantastic book! Anyone who has spent 30 years in Iran and Iraq and Syria, [who] can speak Arabic, is the man to come up with the right kind of notion, where the idea of maybe you can't have it tie off neatly because there isn't a neat ending to what is going on." The book was adapted by William Monahan, who wrote Martin Scorsese crime drama The Departed, which looks to be the #1 movie this weekend.

And what about all those reported rumors of a prequel to Scott and Crowe's previous blockbuster Gladiator? "It's possible," Scott told us. "You can deal with that and bring back Russell," Scott told us. "I know what to do, and you don't do a prequel."

Ridley has also been developing a remake of Walter Hill's 1979 action-drama The Warriors with his brother Tony, and he hinted that Tony might actually be directing it. Although there was talk of it taking place in L.A., Ridley thinks that it should still be set in New York. We'll see how all of that pans out in the next few weeks when Tony does the rounds for his next movie Déjà Vu, also with Denzel Washington.

Ridley Scott's next movie A Good Year comes out on November 10 with American Gangster scheduled for November 2, 2007, both with Russell Crowe. Stay tuned to ComingSoon.net for a full interview with the master filmmaker later this month.

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