Sony Pictures picks up "Remote Control"
LOS ANGELES (Hollywood Reporter) - Sony Pictures has acquired the movie rights to "Remote Control," a spy novel by Mark Burnell, for an adaptation to be produced by James Bond producers Michael G. Wilson and Barbara Broccoli.
Wilson and Broccoli aren't straying far from the Bond reservation with "Remote," which follows a war correspondent turned British corporate intelligence analyst who goes on the run with a former lover after getting caught up in a conspiracy to destabilize the Chinese economy.
Burnell will write the adaptation. The author is perhaps best known for his series of novels featuring heroine Stephanie Patrick. The first book in that series, "The Rhythm Section," is being developed as a movie at New Line.
(Editing by Sheri Linden at Reuters)
