Stephen Gaghan, Oscar winner for writing TRAFFIC, has been hired by Warner Bros. to pen DEAD SPY RUNNING, an espionage novel that McG is attached to direct, according to THE HOLLYWOOD REPORTER.
DEAD SPY RUNNING is set to be published in June by British author Jon Stock, and the film is intended to be the first in a trilogy about a newly-trained spy that is said to mix THE BOURNE IDENTITY with the wit of John Le Carre.
McG would direct at least the first film, will produce with Jeanne Allgood under the WB-based Wonderland Sound and Vision, with Warner Bros. U.K. exec Ollie Madden to oversee.
In the first novel, the hero is running the London Marathon when a fellow racer is found to be strapped with explosives, leading to a globe-trotting adventure to clear the name of the man's father.
