Ludlum’s ‘Sigma Protocol’ gets a Director

Universal has signed Jose Padilha to direct the international thriller flick ‘Sigma Protocol’ based on Robert Ludlum’s novel. Padilha won the Golden Bear award at last years Berlin International Film Festival for his movie ‘Elite Squad’. Matt Holloway and Art Marcum (Iron Man) will write the screenplay.

“Sigma” is based on Ludlum’s final complete novel, which was published after the prolific author’s death. Like the Jason Bourne franchise, another big Uni property, the story involves a modern-day man on the run in Europe from a series of international assassins and agents. The two plots differ sharply, though, with the latter using a World War II conspiracy and Nazis as a plot hook.

[source: Hollywood Reporter]