The First Omen writer Ben Jacoby is adapting the Thomas Ray novella Silencer for Paramount Pictures, Deadline reports.
The spy thriller follows a CIA field agent who is sent to bring in the ultimate CIA target who’s been out in the cold for decades.
An operative who dates back to the dark times of MK Ultra, the target is a silencer — someone who can read minds, and wipe them from a distance, making him impossible to find or catch.
Lorenzo di Bonaventura (Transformers, Constantine) is producing as part of his first-look deal with Paramount alongside NeoText Corporation, who published the book last year.
Russell Ackerman, John Schoenfelder, and Jay Schuminsky will produce for NeoText, with Greg Cohen overseeing development for di Bonaventura Pictures.
Jacoby recently co-wrote an adaptation of Alex North‘s crime thriller The Whisper Man, which Robert De Niro is set to star in for Netflix.
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