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Paul Rudd will star in WWII thriller “The Catcher Was a Spy”.
Ben Lewin is directing the film from a script by “Saving Private Ryan” scribe Robert Rodat based on Nicholas Dawidoff’s book.
According to Deadline, Rudd will play Moe Berg, “an Ivy League grad and attorney who spoke nine languages, but that wasn’t the only reason he stood out among his baseball teammates when he spent 15 years as a journeyman player for such teams as the New York Robins and Chicago White Sox. Their biggest worry might have been hitting a curveball; Berg doubled as a top secret spy for the OSS (a forerunner for the CIA), who helped the U.S. win the race against Germany to build the atomic bomb.”
PalmStar Media’s Kevin Frakes and Mark Fasano are producing with Animus Films’ Jim Young and Tatiana Kelly of Serena Films, and Michael Bederman. PalmStar’s Buddy Patrick will exec produce.
