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Paramount Pictures has been in and out of development on this big screen adaptation of Matt Helm for about a decade. Bradley Cooper has been attached to the project, which is an adaptation of Don Hamilton's spy novel series, since 2008. The project is now moving forward again with a new screenwriter named Tom Shepherd, who recently wrote the script for Robert Downey Jr.'s The Voyage of Doctor Dolittle.

There's also a lot of heavy hitting talent attached to this film project that includes George Clooney, Grant Heslov, Alex Kurtzman and Roberto Orci who are all attached as executive producers. Steven Spielberg, who was attached to direct the film years ago, is also still involved in some capacity.

There are 27 Matt Helm novels total that started with Death of a Citizen in the 1960s to the final book in the series The Damagers, which was published in 1993. The story follows a U.

Exclusive: Tom Shepherd has been hired to pen Matt Helm, a film adapted from Don Hamilton’s prolific spy novel series that has been in the works at Paramount with Bradley Cooper attached to star. George Clooney, Grant Heslov, Alex Kurtzman and Roberto Orci are attached as executive producers, and Steven Spielberg is involved in some capacity. There are 27 published Matt Helm novels that Hamilton wrote from 1960’s Death of a Citizen to 1993’s The Damagers; the author died…...