Johnny Depp plans to star in a Warner Brothers movie about nuked dissident Alexander Litvinenko. Meanwhile his widow, Maria, and deathbed spokesperson, Alex Goldfarb, have sold the rights to their book on Litvinenko to Columbia Pictures for $1.5 million. The Hollywood Reporter comments on the latter project:
The Columbia project was described by the studio as a wide-ranging
espionage
thriller, (exploring) the collision between the deep-rooted
Russian power structure -- enforced by the KGB and its successor, the
FSB -- and the new wave of wild west capitalism that came on the heels
of glasnost.