Brazilian director Jose Padilha (”Elite Squad”) is currently in negotiations to helm Universal’s next big spy franchise, “The Sigma Protocol”, based on a novel by spy-master Robert Ludlum, whose Bourne novels were of course turned into the Bourne movies starring Matt Damon...

It’s no surprise Hollywood is currently raiding the healthy library of master spy writer Robert Ludlum, thanks entirely to the mega success of the “Bourne” films which, I like to remind people, had about 30 minutes of actual faithfulness to Ludlum’s books before they veered off...