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Chuck co-creator Chris Fedak is taking connected different show pinch a budding spy — this 1 successful mediate school. Disney+ is processing Spy School, a play based connected Stuart Gibbs‘ bestselling book series, from Fedak, Ryan Reynolds’ Maximum Effort, shaper Emma Watts and 20th Television.
Written by Fedak, Spy School revolves astir Ben Ripley, who whitethorn only beryllium a teenager, but he’s already pegged his dream job: CIA aliases bust. Ben is not amazed erstwhile he is recruited for a magnet schoolhouse pinch a attraction connected subject — but he’s wholly shocked to observe that nan schoolhouse is simply a beforehand for a CIA academy.
Fedak executive produces pinch Watts, Maximum Effort and Gibbs. 20th Television is nan studio.
Fedak is champion known for co-creating and showrunning nan deed NBC bid Chuck. He besides served arsenic co-creator, executive shaper and showrunner of Fox’s Prodigal Son, and he created and ran nan ABC bid Deception. On nan movie side, he penned nan screenplay for Michael Bay’s movie Ambulance, starring Jake Gyllenhaal. He’s repped by WME and Michael Schenkman astatine GGSSC.
Gibbs is nan New York Times bestselling writer of 5 middle-grade series: Spy School, Funjungle, Charlie Thoren, Moon Base Alpha and Once Upon a Tim, arsenic good arsenic nan schematic caller bid Bruce Wayne: Not Super for DC Comics. His books person sold much than 12 cardinal copies. He besides wrote nan screenplays for See Spot Run, Repli-Kate and Showdown, and has worked connected respective animated workplace features. His first nonfiction book, Spy School Secret Files: Totally True Tales From World War II, will people this fall. Gibbs is repped by CAA and McKuin Frankel Whitehead.
Currently an independent producer, Watts served arsenic President of nan Motion Picture Group astatine Paramount Pictures and arsenic President of Production and Vice Chairman astatine Twentieth Century Fox, wherever she helped found and steward awesome franchises including Deadpool, Night astatine nan Museum, Maze Runner, Kingsman, X-Men, Planet of nan Apes, and James Cameron’s Avatar films. This is her latest collaboration pinch Reynolds since Deadpool, which she championed.
