Amma Asante to Direct ‘Billion Dollar Spy’ Film Adaptation

British director Amma Asante will helm the film adaptation of David E.

Hoffman’s “The Billion Dollar Spy.”The movie, written by Ben August (“Remember”), will be produced by Walden Media and Akiva Goldsman.

Greg Lessans of Weed Road Pictures will serve as executive producer and Naia Cucukov will oversee the project for Walden Media.The story centers on Adolf G.

Tolkachev, the chief designer at the Ussr’s Research Institute of Radio Engineering, who handed over tens of thousands of pages of highly classified documents to the U.S.

He quickly became the crown jewel of the CIA’s spy network at the end of the Cold War.Asante’s credits include 2004’s “A Way of Life,” 2013’s “Belle,” and 2016’s “A United Kingdom,” starring David Oyelowo and Rosamund Pike.

She’s also in post-production on the romantic drama “Where Hands Touch,” starring Amandla Stenberg and George MacKay.

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