Night at Camp David | Paul Greengrass

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Paul Greengrass, whose latest movie, News of the World, is a contender in this year’s Oscar race, has found his next project.

The filmmaker is reuniting with Universal, the studio behind his kinetic Bourne movies, to develop and direct Night of Camp David, a political thriller that adapts the best-selling 1965 movie by Fletcher Knebel.

Greengrass is will also produce with Gregory Goodman, a frequent collaborator with whom he made News, real life drama 22 July, and thrillers Jason Bourne and Captain Phillips.

Jed Mercurio, a British television creator (he was behind the royal police thriller Bodyguard that starred Richard Maddden), is writing the script.

Providing eerie similarities to recent political headlines, Camp David told of a junior U.S. Senator who comes to believe that the President is mentally unbalanced and sliding into paranoia as he seeks closer ties to the Soviet Union, believes a media cabal is out to get him, and wants to annex Canada. The book was re-published in 2018 capitalizing on events of the Trump presidency.

Universal’s executive vp of production, Matt Reilly, will oversee the project on behalf of the studio. [+]