Malko (Michael Fassbender Spy Thriller Film)

[Himmel]

Lionsgate has acquired the global motion picture rights to Gerard de Villiers’ best-selling action-spy series S.A.S. which it’s adapting into Malko, a project that Michael Fassbender will star and produce. Oscar nominated screenwriter Eric Warren Singer (American Hustle, upcoming Top Gun: Maverick) will write the screenplay.

With the deal, Lionsgate has secured the full rights to de Villier’s catalogue of best selling espionage thrillers, serialized through 200 books that have been translated into multiple languages and sold north of 120M copies worldwide. Lionsgate secured the film rights to the catalogue of S.A.S. based stories from Black Magic’s Lars Sylvest who developed the property with Gérard de Villiers and Thorsten Schumacher. The project will be produced together with Rocket Science.

Fassbender will play the super spy for hire Malko Linge, an Austrian nobleman and freelance CIA operative who spent his formative years in a special Nazi work camp for captured spies. Malko learned the intricate dark arts of tradecraft from the best. Now, an adult living in a reclaimed family manor fallen into disrepair, Malko becomes a spy for hire. He is the ultimate agent without an agency – a gentleman warrior without a country who works according to his own moral code and lives the only way a man who has grown up in the face of death can: with a wicked wit and a lust for all things in life, even the things that might kill him. The first film will largely be based upon de Villier’s book Checkpoint Charlie.

“We are enormously excited to be teaming with Greg Shapiro and Michael Fassbender as well as Lars Sylvest from Black Magic and Thorsten Schumacher from Rocket Science to develop Malko,” said Drake. “This is a character with a tremendous 200 title library of amazing spy stories to draw from and we believe we have a world-class creative team in place with Michael and Eric Warren Singer as we move forward on this project.”

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[imsounoriginal]

Fassbender + spy thriller = I'm sold.

[Elgie]

Be in good movies again Fass

[Cremildo]

So long as it doesn't get in the way of Alien: Awakening...

[don3663]

Sold.

[Monterey Jack]

An adult thriller that isn't a CGI-crammed franchise blockbuster? Sign me the frick UP.

[hagios]

Sounds like my 'cup of tea', I'll be looking forward to this!

[cheez avenger]

Please be better than The Snowman.

[Monterey Jack]

Originally Posted by cheez avenger

Please be better than The Snowman.

It couldn't possibly be WORSE.

[Mandalorian]

His Bond film? I'll take it.

[aiman04]

I can see they're aiming for a big franchise like James Bond and Ethan Hunt.

[DR Herbert West]

Sounds good.

[spanky87]

Fassbender is good but he does not have a good track record as a headliner. I’m surprised Hollywood is giving him another chance at a franchise.

[Jennifer Lawrence Fan]

Originally Posted by Monterey Jack

An adult thriller that isn't a CGI-crammed franchise blockbuster? Sign me the frick UP.

yeah, we had something like that before last year and a good majority rejected it for being just that.

[Monterey Jack]

Originally Posted by Jennifer Lawrence Fan

yeah, we had something like that before last year and a good majority rejected it for being just that.

So? Red Sparrow was one of last year's more underrated pleasures.

[Jennifer Lawrence Fan]

Originally Posted by Monterey Jack

So? Red Sparrow was one of last year's more underrated pleasures.

Didn't exactly get the best reviews or light up the box office with its sexual mature and graphic violence. And criticized In a lot of reviews for its sexual nature and violence. But seems those two things turned off the audience it was geared at.

[ace112096]

Originally Posted by cheez avenger

Please be better than The Snowman.

Originally Posted by Monterey Jack

It couldn't possibly be WORSE.

well hopefully the entire screenplay is filmed this time

[dgoswald]

Batman meets James Bond? Be still my racing heart!