True-life World War II drama The Catcher Was A Spy already has Paul Rudd and Guy Pearce aboard. It'll now boast the talents of Mark Strong, who is playing scientist Werner Heisenberg.
The Sessions' Ben Lewin is directing a script written by Saving Private Ryan's Robert Rodat. Here, he adapts Nicholas Dawidoff's 1994 non-fiction bestseller about Moe Berg (Rudd), an accomplished college graduate who spoke nine languages and spent 15 years as a player on baseball teams including the Chicago White Sox. What his teammates didn't know was that his sports career was a cover for his life as a top secret spy for America's pre-CIA intelligence agency the OSS, and he helped the US win the arms race against Germany.
Part of that was ingratiating himself with Heisenberg, and figuring out whether the man was a threat that would need to be assassinated. Strong joins a cast that also already includes Jeff Daniels, Sienna Miller and Giancarlo Gianni. Lewin has the cameras rolling now, but the film has yet to acquire a release date.
Strong will be back on our screens this September as Merlin in Kingsman: The Golden Circle, and before that he'll be seen in Miss Sloane, due to arrive in UK cinemas on 12 May.
Paul Rudd Starring In World War II Drama The Catcher Was A Spy