Hany Abu-Assad has been tapped to direct the adaptation of 'The Good Spy.'
Academy Award-nominated director Hany Abu-Assad is set to direct the film adaptation of The Good Spy, the 2014 biography about CIA operative Robert Ames written by Kai Bird.
The acclaimed 2014 book is an hour-by-hour account of the bombing at the US Embassy in Beirut that occurred in 1983. The biography gives a look at Robert Ames, a CIA operative that lost his life in the attack. In the aftermath of his death, Ames became an icon and symbol of what a "good" should be, someone who respected the customs, culture, and history of the vast, diverse region that he lived in and someone who wanted nothing more to bring peace.
COLLIDER VIDEO OF THE DAY Abu-Assad has been nominated for two Academy Awards for ‘Best Foreign Film’ for his 2005 film Paradise Now about two Palestinian men preparing for a suicide attack in Tel Aviv, and Omar from 2013 which is a tragic love story set in occupied Palestine. He also won the Jury Prize in the competition of Certain Regard at the Cannes Film Festival for Omar. Other previous credits include The Mountain Between Us, starring Kate Winslet and Idris Elba for 20th Century Fox.
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