Ahoy, squirts! Quint here. Now this project sounds pretty cool.

Fox 2000 nabbed the rights to an up and coming book penned by Tom Rob Smith called CHILD 44, with Ridley Scott attached to produce and direct.

The story is set in Stalinist Russia where a secret police officer is on the run with his estranged wife after having been framed for treason. The interesting part is that while on the lam, the couple stumble across a string of child murders and they begin their own investigation even though that exposes them to discovery.

Sounds like a cool flick to me. More Ridley Scott is good, too!