Who can account for the popularity of the spy thriller? I can’t, and I’ve read dozens of them, fiction and nonfiction. But I’ve never read a better true spy tale than “Agent Zigzag,” the story of ...

EXCLUSIVE: Tom Hanks and Gary Goetzman’s Playtone is developing the project based on the bestselling nonfiction book Agent Zigzag, published in the U.S. by Crown. Director Mike Newell (Prince of ...

In a deal worth seven figures, New Line has pivoted and swiveled to win a bidding war for "Agent Zigzag: A True Story of Nazi Espionage, Love, and Betrayal," a book by Ben Macintyre. By Borys Kit, The ...

Adam Chitwood is a former Managing Editor at Collider, where he covered film and television with a focus on interviews, features, and industry analysis. Director James Bobin is now onboard to direct ...

In addition to prepping a sequel to The Muppets, which successfully brought the Jim Henson creations back to the big screen with love, care and hilarity, director James Bobin has just landed another ...

Mark Bomback has been hired to adapt Ben Macintyre's book Agent Zigzag for Tom Hanks, reports Variety. Zigzag is an account of the World War II career of Edward Arnold Chapman. A criminal trained as a ...

Did you, as we did, read last week’s review of Ben Macintyre’s book Agent Zigzag in the New York Times and think, Boy, does that sound like a movie? After all, it’s a nonfiction book about a greedy ex ...

Eddie Chapman’s story is the best kind: wildly improbable but entirely true. In 1930s London, this charming crook cracked safes, pulled heists, and hobnobbed with Noël Coward and the like. In jail on ...

James Bobin is one of the hottest comedy directors to have surfaced in the last few years. Not only is he one of the big players behind HBO’s FLIGHT OF THE CONCHORDS, he also directed this year’s ...