Duncan Jones To Direct First TV Series With Adaptation Of KILLER INTENT

Duncan Jones is to make his television series directing debut with an adaptation of the thriller novel Killer Intent, according to Deadline. Liberty Films will produce the adaptation of Tony Kent's book.

Killer Intent is the first in a series of thrillers about an intelligence agent Joe Dempsey. In the novel, when an attempted assassination sparks a chain reaction of dangerous events across London, Britain's elite security forces are powerless to stop the chaos threatening to overwhelm the Government. As a dark conspiracy unfolds, three strangers find their fates entwined: Dempsey; Sarah Truman, a CNN reporter determined to get her headline; and Michael Devlin, a Belfast-born criminal barrister with a secret past.

Jones will direct and executive produce the series. Kent will adapt his novel alongside an American-style writers' room.

Jones said: "Tony's writing style is already so cinematic, working with him and a room of writers to adapt his first book will be a thrill. I'm excited to get my teeth into some contemporary set action, and have time to develop characters over a series rather than a single film."

The next book in Kent's series, Marked For Death, is due to be released in February, 2019.

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