Sheldon Turner is tipped to adapt Richard Clarke’s novel “The Scorpion’s Gate” into an action-thriller feature at Sony Pictures says Variety.
In the realistic geopolitical thriller, Saudi Arabia falls to a regime potentially hostile to the U.S. and is on the verge of acquiring nuclear weapons.
A high-ranking American intelligence analyst, a British intelligence agent and a rogue general move to prevent a bellicose defense secretary from plunging the planet into war.
Jennifer Klein will produce. Klein and Turner are developing “Everest” which Doug Liman is slated to direct.
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