I Am Pilgrim movie: Matthew Vaughn jumps aboard the Terry Hayes adaptation.
Matthew Vaughn to direct I Am Pilgrim movie
British filmmaker Matthew Vaughn is set to direct a brand new spy movie called I Am Pilgrim. Vaughn, who is best known for his work on X-Men: First Class, this year’s brilliant Kingsmen: The Secret Service and his brilliant debut Layer Cake, will helm the adaptation of Terry Hayes’ international bestselling espionage thriller, citing it as his next project. The I Am Pilgrim movie will also be produced and co-financed by Vaughn’s company MARV Films.
Hayes, a former journalist, was also a screenwriter, and put together the screenplays for Mad Max 2: The Road Warrior and Payback. He will also adapt his book for the big screen.
“Pilgrim” is the codename for a man who doesn’t exist. The adopted son of a wealthy American family, he once headed up a secret espionage unit for US intelligence. Now in anonymous retirement, he is called upon to lend his expertise to an unusual investigation but ultimately becomes caught in a terrifying race-against-time to save America from oblivion.
Matthew Vaughn // I Am Pilgrim movie
The book was a best-seller around the world last year, and shifted millions of copies. Vaughn is set to start shooting the film in the first part of 2016 for a release sometime the following year.
Vaughn is currently writing the follow-up to Kingsman, but does this mean he will step aside to allow for a new director to helm a sequel (a bit like he did on Kick-Ass 2 and X-Men: Days Of Future Past)?
Here’s the full book synopsis for I Am Pilgrim. We will bring you more news on the I Am Pilgrim movie as we get it.
Can you commit the perfect crime?
Pilgrim is the codename for a man who doesn’t exist. The adopted son of a wealthy American family, he once headed up a secret espionage unit for US intelligence. Before he disappeared into anonymous retirement, he wrote the definitive book on forensic criminal investigation.
But that book will come back to haunt him. It will help NYPD detective Ben Bradley track him down. And it will take him to a rundown New York hotel room where the body of a woman is found facedown in a bath of acid, her features erased, her teeth missing, her fingerprints gone. It is a textbook murder – and Pilgrim wrote the book.
What begins as an unusual and challenging investigation will become a terrifying race-against-time to save America from oblivion. Pilgrim will have to make a journey from a public beheading in Mecca to a deserted ruins on the Turkish coast via a Nazi death camp in Alsace and the barren wilderness of the Hindu Kush in search of the faceless man who would commit an appalling act of mass murder in the name of his God.
