Covert One: The Hades Factor

This article is about the film adaptation. For the book, see The Hades Factor.

Covert One: The Hades Factor
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Written by	Robert Ludlum Gayle Lynds (novel) Elwood Reid
Directed by	Mick Jackson
Starring	Stephen Dorff Mira Sorvino Blair Underwood Sophia Myles Jeffrey DeMunn Danny Huston Anjelica Huston
Theme music composer	J. Peter Robinson
Country of origin	United States
Original language(s)	English French German
Production
Producer(s)	Sherri Saito
Cinematography	Ivan Strasburg
Editor(s)	Lori Jane Coleman
Running time	158 minutes
Distributor	Sony Pictures
Release
Original network	CBS
Original release	April 9, 2006

Covert One: The Hades Factor (a.k.a. Robert Ludlum's Covert One: The Hades Factor, The Hades Factor) is a made-for-TV thriller filmed in Toronto that first aired in 2006. Directed by Mick Jackson, the miniseries is loosely based on The Hades Factor, a 2000 novel written by Gayle Lynds as part of the Covert-One series created by Robert Ludlum.

Plot

While in a retrieve operation of a virus in Berlin, the Covert One agent Rachel Russell is double-crossed by two dirty agents; she kills them and escapes, trying to find a hiding place and someone to trust to protect the vials. Meanwhile, the former Covert One agent Dr. Jon Smith is also in Berlin with his beloved fiancée Sophie Amsden participating in a congress. When three persons die with bleeding, the doctors disclose a Hades virus outbreak, an extreme rare Ebola variant. Jon and Sophie return to the USA to research a cure, and Jon discovers a huge combination of bio-terrorism and conspiracy

Synopsis

The Hades Factor concerns an outbreak of a doomsday virus in the United States. Stephen Dorff stars as Lt.Colonel. Jonathan Smith, an expert in biochemistry who races around the globe trying to identify the source of the outbreak.

Distribution

First broadcast as a two-part CBS miniseries in April 2006, Covert One: The Hades Factor has since aired as a film on Sky One. It was released on DVD by Sony Pictures.

Cast

Stephen Dorff as John Smith
Mira Sorvino as Rachel Russell
Blair Underwood as Palmer Addison
Sophia Myles as Sophie Amsden
Danny Huston as Fred Klein
Colm Meaney as Peter Howell
Josh Hopkins as Bill Griffin
Jeffrey DeMunn as Mercer Haldane
Anjelica Huston as President Castilla
Rosemary Dunsmore as Nancy Langford
Joris Jarsky as Tom Fancher
Conrad Dunn as Ghalib Hassan
Sergio Di Zio as Marty Zellerbach
Karen Glave as Lt. Crowthers

External links

Covert One: The Hades Factor at the Internet Movie Database
Covert One: The Hades Factor at AllMovie
Covert One: The Hades Factor at Rotten Tomatoes
Covert One: The Hades Factor at CBS.com
Covert One: The Hades Factor at Tandem Communications

Films directed by Mick Jackson

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