K.T Simpson
Michael Fassbender is set to produce and star in “Malko”, a film based on Gerard de Villiers’ bestselling S.A.S. book series. Per Collider, Lionsgate has acquired worldwide feature rights to the spy franchise and tapped Oscar-nominated scribe Eric Warren Singer to write the script, which will largely be based on de Villier’s book Checkpoint Charlie.
The S.A.S. franchise follows Malko Linge, an Austrian nobleman and freelance CIA operative who spent his formative years in a special Nazi work camp for captured spies, where he learned the intricate dark arts of tradecraft from the best. Now an adult living in a reclaimed family manor fallen into disrepair, Malko becomes a spy for hire. He is the ultimate agent without an agency — a gentleman warrior without a country who works according to his own moral code, and lives the only way a man who has grown up in the face of death can — with a wicked wit and a lust for all things in life, even the things that might kill him.
Fassbender will play the lead character of Malko. Lars Sylvest, Greg Shapiro and Thorsten Schumacher will also produce alongside Fassbender.
