Jason Bateman

So it's the father's imagination and that North London 40-something maleness, which I know very well.

They're set in South London, but big deal, not much difference.

And it was a crazy ride to go on.

very short shoots after 10 years of creating it and getting it made.

It's the original fugitive novel.

It's the original and, you know, a huge inspiration for Ian Fleming, for Bond.

Oh, wow.

And it's so prescient to what's going on in our times, not to allude to that too much.

It really is.

You know, when we first sat down trying to talk about this, is this a bit of a game?

It's not about AI, I know.

But is this a bit of a kind of guy's film?

And then the longer we were exploring the themes of it and...

motivation behind the guy's actions and the outcome and how he's turned on by his own side as well as obviously the side um he's tried to take down it is uh it's fascinating how it plays into a political spectrum of what's going on in the world now i don't want to say too much about it because people should read the book and yeah we will make it you will make it definitely oh yeah we don't we haven't got a filming date yet but it's it's something we're trying to slate for next year although

There are other huge commitments involving cloaks floating about.

I'll be the first guy to watch it.

I'll be the first one there.

I can't wait.

I think I owe you a lot more because I was very late on.

So you owe me nothing.