![]() John le Carré famously said that if a book is a cow, a screenplay is a bullion cube. My debut novel was picked up by 20th Century Fox, but I also was warned by my literary agent that as the author I could not expect the movie to come out exactly like the book, and I shouldn’t have pride of authorship because a screenplay is quite a lot different than a novel. ![]() Science & Film: How is it for you to see your book adapted into a film? Matthews and Science & Film spoke by phone the week that RED SPARROW was released by 20th Century Fox. Matthews was a technical consultant on the screenplay, written by Justin Haythe (A CURE FOR WELLNESS), so that it could accurately reflect CIA techniques and Cold War operations. ![]() Jason Matthews wrote the book Red Sparrow based on his experience serving in the CIA for 33 years Sparrow Schools existed in Russia in the 1960s and ’70s. RED SPARROW stars Jennifer Lawrence as Dominika Egorova, a Russian ballerina recruited by a Russian intelligence service that trains people in sexual entrapment. ![]() The author of the book Red Sparrow, from which Francis Lawrence’s movie of the same name was adapted, spoke with Science & Film about the craft of espionage. How to Steal Secrets: Red Sparrow author Jason Matthews ![]()
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