Covert One: The Hades Factor

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Convert One: The Hades Factor is a thriller movie about an outbreak of the Hades virus in the United States. Stephen Dorff, Mira Sorvino, and Anjelica Huston lead in this movie. It is base on the series of books written by Robert Ludlum. It is also features a female President of the United States.

If you enjoyed the book, and are thinking to yourself "I heard that they turned this into a movie" and that in turn leads you to renting the movie, be prepared for a very different story. It is well known and quite a cliché to note that "the book is always better than the movie," however, the story in this case is so incredibly and substantially removed from its original that it is fairly unrecognizable, save the name.

Jon Smith has a combative, adversarial relationship with Covert One, and Fred Klein's Name is Frank. The Sophia isn't Randi's sister, and Randi's name is Rachel. Covert One, rather than being a very small, well funded operation that reports directly to the president is a fairly large operation and guess what? The Bad Guy turns out to be operating from within Covert One! Bill Griffin is a total creep, rather than the conflicted character from the book, and in the movie he worked/works for Covert one. Peter Howell doesn't live in a Mobile home and there is no Martin Zellerbach. Jon and Peter have a surprisingly easy time calling each other all over the world, which becomes hilarious because they are end up reaching each other with no hitch at all at a 1) Am Afghani marketplace, 2)In a helicopter. The Pharmiceutical company that supplies the antidote to the Hades virus plays a very small role, and is implicated in the end, however it lacks all the intrigue that the book gives to it.

All in all a very different story, and too different to simply call an "adaptation." More accurate to call it "vaguely reminiscent."

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