Stephen Gaghan set to adapt 'Dead Spy'

February 19, 2009 Stephen Gaghan has been tapped to pen the adaptation of "Dead Spy Running," an espionage novel to which McG is attached to direct for Warner Bros. Based on a book by British author Jon Stock, the film is meant to be the first in a trilogy and aims to reinvent the spy genre by telling the origin story of a newly trained spy in a tone that mixes the grittiness of "The Bourne Identity" with the wittiness of John Le Carre's oeuvre. WMA-repped Gaghan, an Oscar winner for "Traffic," is writing the adaptation of nonfiction book "Blink," to which he is also attached to direct, for Universal and Appian Way.

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