Yimou Zhang Sees "The Parsifal Mosaic"

The great Chinese filmmaker Yimou Zhang ("Raise the Red Lantern," "Hero," "House of Flying Daggers") is in talks to direct his first major Hollywood studio film--an adaptation of author Robert Ludlum's novel "The Parsifal Mosaic" says Heat Vision.

 The story follows  a U.S. intelligence agent who witnesses the assassination of his lover, a Kgb double agent.When he later sees her alive in Rome, it begins a quest that leads him to unravel a conspiracy with a mole named Parsifal at the center.

David Self wrote the initial adapted screenplay. A new writer is being sought to work with Zhang on a new draft.

Brian Grazer and Ron Howard are producing the film.