Two actors have signed on to star in the Red Sparrow film adaptation: Jennifer Lawrence and Joel Edgerton. The story for this movie comes from Jason Matthews’ 2013 novel.
According to The Hollywood Reporter, Frances Lawrence will serve as the director. The theatrical release date has been set for Nov. 10, 2017.
Here’s more from Variety: “The book is set in modern-day Russia in the intelligence bureaucracy with a young woman drafted against her will to become a ‘sparrow,’ a trained seductress assigned to operate against a first-tour CIA officer who handles the agency’s most sensitive penetration of Russian intelligence. The two young intelligence officers fall into a spiral of attraction and deception that results in her leading life as a double agent.” (via Slash Film)