There hasn't been any news on the movie adaption of Greg Rucka's Queen & Country comic book series in a long time. The comic book was about a female Special Ops agent who goes on the run after carrying out a high-level assassination in Eastern Europe.
Comicbook.com interviewed Greg Rucka and asked him about what was up with the long delayed Queen & Country movie. Here's what Rucka told them.
"Fox bought it years ago and they don’t know what to make of it,” Rucka said of the adaptation. “One day somebody somewhere is going to find a way through the morass that the Queen & Country media rights have become and there will be a movie or a TV show or something but holding one’s breath at this point is I think a dangerous, dangerous prospect—you might pass out.”
"Every couple of years, they start working on the project again, “And then something happens that scares them away,” Rucka explained. “They’re paralyzed by the fact that it’s a female lead. That’s what it comes down to—they’re paralyzed by the fact that the lead in Queen & Country is a woman and I’ve literally had conversations with executives where they’ve said, ‘Is there any way that we can get a man up there with her?’ and it’s like, ‘Well, sure. That’s not Queen & Country. Feel free to write that yourselves.’ It’s absurd.”
Rucka goes on to keep talking about how crazy it is that Hollywood is so scared of casting a woman in a lead action role.