Stephen Templin | FROM RUSSIA WITHOUT LOVE: Movie Production

Who could star in and produce FROM RUSSIA WITHOUT LOVE as a film? For fun, here are some of my choices:

Matt Damon: Chris Paladin (aka Reverend). I think Matt Damon could pull off the main character Chris, who struggles between his past as a SEAL, his present as a pastor, and being pulled back into the shadowy world of special ops. Damon shined in the Bourne film series, and he could shine in this series, too!

Gina Carano: Hannah Andrade (aka Infidel). Physically, I imagined Carano when I first developed Hannah, the Special Operations Group CIA officer who is a former mixed martial arts competitor. Also, Carano has the dark hair and eyes that make it easier for her to blend into Arab populations. In addition, there’s a pretty side to Carano that Matt Damon, I mean, Chris Paladin is attracted to. As for the disbelief in God and complexity to Hannah’s character, I don’t know where all that comes from—she’s still a mystery, even to me!

(Young) Don Rickles: Sonny Cohen (aka Mr. Sunshine). Yes, from Toy Story, Mr. Potato Head himself. When a Jewish New Yorker—who is a Delta Force operator— rode naked on a donkey through the night of war torn Syria (in TRIDENT'S FIRST GLEAMING), only a young Don Rickles came to mind. (He actually played a soldier with Clint Eastwood in Kelly’s Heroes.) Sonny returns with Chris and Hannah to fight again in From Russia Without Love.

Liam Neeson: Xander Metaxas. No spoilers here, sorry.

Leonardo DiCaprio: Animus Zacharoff. The Greek terrorist you’ll love to hate. Or hate to love? Hmm, I better leave it at that.

Christopher Nolan, Director/Screenwriter: If I’m going to have Neeson (Batman Begins) and DiCaprio (Inception), it makes sense for Christopher Nolan to direct them again. And I like how he blended both action and character in the Dark Knight trilogy.

Hans Zimmer, Soundtrack: I have so many tracks from Hans Zimmer and so little time: The Dark Knight Trilogy, Inception (hmm, I’m seeing a pattern here), The Last Samurai, Gladiator, Crimson Tide…

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About Stephen Templin

Since elementary school, Stephen Templin felt a need to write, dreaming of becoming a novelist, and now he is a New York Times and international bestselling author, with the movie rights to one of his movies purchased by Vin Diesel. Steve’s books have been translated into thirteen languages. He is a “hybrid” author who maintains active book contracts with top publishers such as Simon and Schuster and St. Martin’s Press while also publishing independently.

After high school, he completed Hell Week, qualified as a pistol and rifle expert, blew up things, and practiced small unit tactics during Basic Underwater Demolition/SEAL training. Later, Steve left the Navy and became a missionary. Then for fourteen years he lectured as a tenured professor at Meio University in Japan, where he also practiced the martial art aikido. Currently, he lives in the Dallas- Fort Worth area.

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About FROM RUSSIA WITHOUT LOVE

SEAL Team Six veteran Chris Paladin left the Navy to become a pastor, but CIA spook Hannah Andrade pulls him back into Special Operations Group to locate the White House Chief of Staff’s kidnapped son-in-law before he is executed by Greek terrorists. Cantankerous Army Delta Force operator Sonny Cohen reunites with Chris and Hannah as they race the clock to save the hostage.

In Athens, Chris and his teammates discover that Russia is secretly behind the kidnapping, part of a murderous plan to attack the flow of natural gas in Europe. The Cold War has heated up again.

Chris and his crew’s rescue quickly changes into a mission to capture-or-kill a Russian spy.