Exclusive: Middleton Media Group has optioned rights to Breaking Cover, a biography by former CIA officer Michele Rigby Assad, with an eye on making a feature film about her and her husband Joseph. Michael Russell Gunn, currently a supervising producer on Showtime’s Billions, is adapting the screenplay.
Rigby Assad’s book, titled Breaking Cover: My Secret Life in the CIA and What It Taught Me about What’s Worth Fighting For, was published in February by Tyndale Momentum. It tells the true story of the couple, who were newlyweds training to become undercover agents for the CIA’s Directorate of Operations when 9/11 occurred, and they found themselves hunting terrorists and managing a marriage in the world’s most unforgiving places. The film will focus on the true humanitarian mission the pair hatched and executed in which hundreds of refugees were rescued from the clutches of Isis.
Rigby Assad’s book, titled Breaking Cover: My Secret Life in the CIA and What It Taught Me about What’s Worth Fighting For, was published in February by Tyndale Momentum. It tells the true story of the couple, who were newlyweds training to become undercover agents for the CIA’s Directorate of Operations when 9/11 occurred, and they found themselves hunting terrorists and managing a marriage in the world’s most unforgiving places. The film will focus on the true humanitarian mission the pair hatched and executed in which hundreds of refugees were rescued from the clutches of Isis.
- 7/20/2018
- by Patrick Hipes
- Deadline Film + TV
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