Tradecraft: Jon Hamm to Star in Tony Gilroy's Le Carré-esque High Wire Act

Tony Gilroy may have dropped the ball with The Bourne Legacy, but when he's on his game (Michael Clayton, Duplicity, the previous Bourne movies), he's one of the best screenwriters in the business. And for his newest effort, according to director Brad Anderson (Transsiberian, The Machinist), he's channeling his inner le Carré. "Tony may have been channeling John le Carré when he wrote this," he told Deadline, "and as such it has many of the themes I love that make those stories so great – the political intrigue, the betrayals, the morally compromised characters, the reluctant heroes. And it’s set in a world – war-torn Beirut – that’s seldom depicted on screen." The movie in question is High Wire Act. Anderson will direct for Radar Pictures, and Mad Men's Jon Hamm will star. According to the trade, the plot goes something like this: "Set in 1980s Beirut, Hamm plays a former U.S. diplomat who is called back into service to save a former colleague from the group possibly responsible for his own family’s death." Jon Hamm in a le Carré-esque Eighties-set political thriller directed by Brad Anderson and written by Tony Gilroy? I'm in!