New Line Cinema decided to make a movie on Mark Burnell's thriller The Rhythm Section. According to Variety reports, the studio hired the 41-year-old author to write the screenplay.
The Northumberland-born writer, who grew up in Brazil and returned to Britain, where he tried several careers, has become famous for his Stephanie Patrick series, including The Rhythm Section (1999), Chameleon (2001), Gemini (2003) and The Third Woman (2005), which will be launched in September. Burnell has also written well-received novels like Freak (1994), Glittering Savages (1995), Zoo Station (2003).
The Rhythm Section tells the story of the female assassin Stephanie Patrick, who investigates a plane crash that killed her parents and brother. Falling into a downward spiral of prostitution, drugs and drink, she is picked up by a journalist who has discovered that the air crash was caused by a bomb.
The Rhythm Section is not a thriller about the hunt for a terrorist or about revenge, although justice for her family is her initial motivation. Rather, The Rhythm Section is the story of Stephanie's attempt to reclaim herself.
She has to rediscover who she is through a series of roles that she is forced to play.
As a prostitute, she is Lisa, the chemical blonde, and later, she is Petra Reuter, German anarchist turned mercenary terrorist. Sometimes, she is Marina Gaudenzi, a Swiss businesswoman, or she's Susan Branch, an American student, or Elizabeth Shepherd, an English management consultant. More than anything, The Rhythm Section is about a catastrophic crisis of identity and the price that has to be paid to be free of it. (fantasticfiction.co.uk)
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