Three Hollywood studios plan to make a film about Alexander Litvinenko, the Russian spy poisoned last November in London.

Warner Bros to make a film about the former spy’s life and death. Warner acquired the rights to a book by New York Times reporter Alan Cowell, to be published next year. Warner Bros bought the rights for Johnny Depp’s production company. According to Variety, Depp would produce and might star.
Columbia Pictures and the director Michael Mann have paid $US1.5 million ($1.9 million) for the rights to another book being written by Mr Litvinenko’s widow, Marina, and friend Alex Goldfarb.

Braun Entertainment has bought the rights to Litvinenko’s book, co-written with Yuri Feltshinsky, in which he accuses Russia’s intelligence service of blowing up Moscow apartment blocks and blaming the carnage on Chechen separatists.

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