Diane Kruger and Eric Bana to star in ‘The Operative’

Los Angeles: Actors Diane Kruger and Eric Bana have been roped in to feature in the espionage thriller, ‘The Operative’.

Reportedly, the film will be directed by Yuval Adler.

Kruger plays a rogue spy recruited by Israeli intelligence agency, Mossad, to go undercover in Tehran only to be caught in a complex triangle with her handler (Bana) and her subject.

The actor duo has earlier shared screen space in historical drama, ‘Troy’.

The film has been adapted from the Israeli best-seller ‘The English Teacher’, penned by former Israeli intelligence officer Yiftach Reicher Atir.

Adler has written the screenplay for the movie.

—PTI