Dead Spy Running
Encyclopedia
Dead Spy Running is a 2009 spy novel
by Jon Stock
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imprint. Dead Spy Running the very first book in the trilogy was published in July 2009.
acquired the movie rights to the Dead Spy Running franchise in October 2008 to make the first of a proposed three movie franchise, they signed on Charlie's Angels
director McG to direct the movie along with Stephen Gaghan
to write the screen play. It was initially reported that after the shooting of McG's last movie Terminator Salvation
, he would be taking up the shooting of the remake Captain Nemo: 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea, but with the cancelling of this movie by Disney it appears that Dead Spy Running will be the next movie to be taken up.
Spy fiction
Spy fiction, literature concerning the forms of espionage, was a sub-genre derived from the novel during the nineteenth century, which then evolved into a discrete genre before the First World War , when governments established modern intelligence agencies in the early twentieth century...
by Jon Stock
Jon Stock
Jon Stock is a British author and journalist. He was educated at Sherborne School in Dorset and at Magdalene College, Cambridge, England. He lives in Wiltshire with his wife and three children. He has three brothers one of whom is Andrew Stock currently president of the Society of Wildlife...
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Book deal
In July 2008 Stock signed a three book deal, with Blue Door, a new HarperCollinsHarperCollins
HarperCollins is a publishing company owned by News Corporation. It is the combination of the publishers William Collins, Sons and Co Ltd, a British company, and Harper & Row, an American company, itself the result of an earlier merger of Harper & Brothers and Row, Peterson & Company. The worldwide...
imprint. Dead Spy Running the very first book in the trilogy was published in July 2009.
Movie deal
Warner Bros.Warner Bros.
Warner Bros. Entertainment, Inc., also known as Warner Bros. Pictures or simply Warner Bros. , is an American producer of film and television entertainment.One of the major film studios, it is a subsidiary of Time Warner, with its headquarters in Burbank,...
acquired the movie rights to the Dead Spy Running franchise in October 2008 to make the first of a proposed three movie franchise, they signed on Charlie's Angels
Charlie's Angels (film)
Charlie's Angels is a 2000 American action comedy film directed by McG, starring Cameron Diaz, Drew Barrymore, and Lucy Liu as three women working for a private investigation agency...
director McG to direct the movie along with Stephen Gaghan
Stephen Gaghan
Stephen Gaghan is an American screenwriter and director. He is noted for writing the screenplay for Steven Soderbergh's film Traffic, based on a Channel 4 series, for which he won the Academy Award, as well as Syriana which he wrote and directed.-Childhood and education:Born in either Louisville,...
to write the screen play. It was initially reported that after the shooting of McG's last movie Terminator Salvation
Terminator Salvation
Terminator Salvation is a 2009 American science fiction action film directed by McG and starring Christian Bale and Sam Worthington. The fourth installment in the Terminator series, the film is set in 2018 and focuses on the war between Skynet and humanity, with the human Resistance fighting...
, he would be taking up the shooting of the remake Captain Nemo: 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea, but with the cancelling of this movie by Disney it appears that Dead Spy Running will be the next movie to be taken up.