Doremus Cooking Up Spy Thriller

SUNDAY CALENDAR SNEAKS FOR SEPTEMBER 4, 2011. DO NOT — USE PRIOR TO PUBLICATION ******************** NEW YORK, NEW YORK–Aug.09, 2011–Drake Doremus directed Like Crazy. A film British college student falls for an American student, only to be separated from him when she’s banned from the U.S. after overstaying her visa. (Carolyn Cole/Los Angeles Times)

The slow understated nature of a good Cold War thriller is a good counterweight to the fluff that’s sometimes too easy to digest.  And so with that, we look forward to an upcoming spy thriller by Drake Doremus, only it’s not a ‘Cold War’ movie, unless you want to call it ‘Cold War II’.

He’s been hired to direct ‘The Tracking Of A Russian Spy’ for Studiocanal and The Picture Company.  This was based on the novella by journalist Mitch Swenson and adapted by Charles Cumming and centers on a secret romance Swenson had with Katya, a young and mysterious Russian woman he met in a New York nightclub.

This is kind of also based on the 2010 Russian spy scandal in the United States, so it should have a somewhat contemporary vibe to it.  Also, Richard Gere’s ‘The Double’ is also loosely based on that.  That movie was panned by many, but I thought it was worth one watch, it wasn’t too bad at all.

In that movie, Gere plays a deep cover Russian mole who is reactivated all these years later.