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Considering he's busier than a tabloid editor circa the Pitt/Aniston break-up, I'm not at all surprised that John Woo has given "Rainbow Six", the film version of Tom Clancy's best selling novel, the birdie.

One of several Clancy flicks in the works over at Robert Evans-ville, "Six" centres on the character of John Clark, played by Willem Dafoe in "Clear and Present Danger" and Liev Schrieber in "The Sum of All Fears". According to Variety, Zack Synder, director of the recent "Dawn of the Dead" retool, has been hired to write and direct the film, replacing Woo - who has a number of other projects in the works, including "He-Man".

In the movie, Ex-Navy SEAL John Clark is the newly named head of Rainbow, an international task force dedicated to combating terrorism. In a trial by fire, he must stop a terrorist group of men and women so extreme that their success could literally mean the end of life on earth as we know it.

Clancy has long expressed an interest in [his good friend] Tom Selleck playing Clark in the film - but thinks the studio might consider him a little too old now to play action-man. The authour previously told Moviehole that he'd be happy for Liev Schrieber - who played the role in "Sum of All Fears" - to return to the role otherwise. Personally, I think they'll go bigger.

Peter Berg and J.T Petty, meantime, are making headway with the film adaptation of Clancy video-game "Splinter Cell".

Berg's just been done to to the CIA headquarters, with Clancy, to meet the bigwigs and make sure he's making a realistic flick out of "Splinter Cell". They're now talking casting.