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
Genre	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 Danny Huston Anjelica Huston
Music by	J. Peter Robinson
Cinematography	Ivan Strasburg
Editing by	Lori Jane Coleman
Country	United States
Language	English French German
Original channel	CBS
Release date	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.

Synopsis

The Hades Factor concerns an outbreak of a doomsday virus in the United States. Stephen Dorff stars as Lt. 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

• Stephen Dorff as Jonathan Smith
• Mira Sorvino as Rachel Russell
• Blair Underwood as Palmer Addison
• Sophia Myles as Sophie Amsden
• Danny Huston as Frank Klein
• Colm Meaney as Peter Howell
• Josh Hopkins as Bill Griffin
• Jeffrey DeMunn as Steven Haldane
• Anjelica Huston as President Castilla
• Rosemary Dunsmore as Nancy Langford
• Joris Jarsky as Tom Fancher
• Conrad Dunn as Ghalib Hassan
• Sergio Di Zio as Marty Zeller
• Karen Glave as Lt. Crowthers

External links

• Covert One: The Hades Factor at the Internet Movie Database
• Covert One: The Hades Factor at AllRovi
• Covert One: The Hades Factor at Rotten Tomatoes
• Covert One: The Hades Factor at CBS.com
• Covert One: The Hades Factor at Tandem Communications