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.