![]() The resulting film is a cross between an erotic thriller and slow-burn spy procedural, showing both the daily grind of office work and only slightly more glamorous fieldwork. He has adapted some of those experiences into the Red Sparrow trilogy, whose last installment, The Kremlin’s Candidate, was released Feb. Another draw is that its author was once a CIA clandestine services officer himself: Matthews spent 33 years working for the CIA and was posted in the southern Mediterranean, Asia and the Caribbean. Part of the story’s appeal, no doubt, is that its heroine, Dominika, is a “Sparrow,” a Russian agent trained in seducing civilians and foreign agents to elicit information (a real program that the USSR operated in the ‘ 60s and ‘ 70s). ![]() ![]() Nevertheless, the story is arriving in theaters this year as a major $69 million-budgeted movie featuring marquee names including Jennifer Lawrence, Joel Edgerton, Charlotte Rampling and Jeremy Irons. When 20th Century Fox optioned Red Sparrowin 2013, it purchased the rights to a story that deliberately avoided spy-movie tropes: Jason Matthews’ debut novel features long scenes of spies walking around cities to throw off tails, gaining new sources’ trusts and trying to turn agents into double agents in the place of fancy gadgets, car chases or fight scenes on precarious ledges. ![]()
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