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Published on Friday, March 19th, 2010 at 11:06
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According to Variety, Hyde Park has acquired the rights to Brit author Andy McNab's Nick Stone espionage novels and is eyeing the series as a potential franchise.The first pic will be "Echelon," which is based on McNab's novel "Firewall" and is the third of 12 books in the series. "Echelon" will mark the first pic to be financed under the Hyde Park/Imagenation pact; the two companies recently partnered on a $250 million deal to develop, produce and distribute up to 20 films over seven years.
Harvey Weinstein tried for years to get a Nick Stone project off the ground, but spy pics turned cold in a post-9/11 world and Weinstein eventually let the rights lapse.
In "Echelon," soldier of fortune Nick Stone, paired with a street-smart female cryptographer, is hired to infiltrate a computer facility poised to breach a secret global surveillance system.