As Universal take a stake in Rupert Wyatt's sci-fi action film, Agent 13, many more details have come to light.
It's not, as I had (perhaps naively) assumed, an original project, but derived from the pulp novels and comics published in the 80s by Starship Troopers: Invasion screenwriter Flint Dille and David Marconi, himself a successful scribe ' or, at least, the man behind the scripts for Enemy of the State and the last Die Hard film. It's not yet totally clear if either will be involved in the Agent 13 movie at all, but the pitch to studios was developed by TS Nowlin so it's a 'probably not.'
Charlize Theron is the only actor known to be attached to the movie right now, though as Heat Vision observe, this won't be in the lead role of Agent 13, who is a chap. My best guess is that she'll be cast as Maggie Darr, another operative in the same agency, and kind of Theron-looking in the art I can see ' though there is also a character called China White that might be a contender.
I've not read the books or comics, though there's a lot of info out there about what they contain (think: Sam Spade goes Rocketeer-ish on the trail of the Illuminati), and the covers themselves tell a lot of the story. Here's a compendium of that artwork.
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