Universal Pictures recently announced their plans to develop “The Parsifal Mosaic” into a feature film. The novel was written by Robert Ludlum. Now, the rumor is that the studio is setting Zhang Yimou (Hero, Raise the Red Lantern) to direct, according to The Hollywood Reporter.

“The Parsifal Mosaic” was originally published in 1982. It is officially described as follows:

Michael Havelock’s world died on a moonlit beach on the Costa Brava as he watched his partner and lover, double agent Jenna Karas, efficiently gunned down by his own agency. There’s nothing left for him but to quit the game, get out. Then, in one frantic moment on a crowded railroad platform in Rome, Havelock sees Jenna. Racing around the globe in search of his beautiful betrayer, Havelock is now marked for death by both U.S. and Russian assassins, trapped in a massive mosaic of treachery created by a top-level mole with the world in his fist: Parsifal.

Zhang most recently directed The Flowers of War, starring Christian Bale.