Severance Package Sounds Like Good Bad CIA Fun

The CIA blows. If all three “Bourne Identity” films haven’t taught you that already, then you just haven’t been paying attention to Hollywood films. The latest “The CIA really, really sucks donkey balls” movie is the action-comedy “Severance Package”, based on the novel of the same name by Duane Swierczynski, about a CIA-fronted company that gets liquidated. As well as its employees. Ouch, sucks to be the employee of a CIA-fronted company, huh?

Anyways, Variety has more:

The protag is a media relations director of a financial company who learns that the firm was a front for a covert intelligence agency that is being shut down immediately, with every manager scheduled to be terminated–literally. The novel is a recipe for a Tarantino-esque, stylistically violent film, and it was discovered by Marc Platt Prods. prexy Siegel and Lionsgate veep Jim Miller. Novel was published May 27 by St. Martin’s Minotaur.

Brett Simon (”Assassination of a High School President”) will direct, but first he has to write the script with Swierczynski.

You gotta love the novel’s tagline: “Ever wanted to kill your boss? Well guess what, the feeling’s mutual.”