Covert One: The Hades Factor

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

DVD Cover
Format Miniseries
Distributed by Sony Pictures
Directed by Mick Jackson
Produced by Sherri Saito
Written by Robert Ludlum
Gayle Lynds
(novel)
Elwood Reid
Starring Stephen Dorff
Mira Sorvino
Blair Underwood
Sophia Myles
Jeffrey DeMunn
Danny Huston
Anjelica Huston
Music by J. Peter Robinson
Cinematography Ivan Strasburg
Editing by Lori Jane Coleman
Country United States United States
Language English
French
German
Original channel CBS
Release date United States April 9, 2006
Running time 158 minutes

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

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