Tradecraft: Fox Buys Spy Pilot From Undercovers Producer

Deadline reports that Fox has ordered a spy pilot script from Peter Berg’s (The Kingdom) company Film 44. The untitled hour-long drama was written by novelist and producer Elwood Reid (Undercovers, Hawaii Five-0). According to the trade, the "high-octane character drama ... follows the woman with the most lethal mind in America, a brilliant and ruthless military professor who is recruited by a former student to help a covert branch of the CIA deal with high-priority targets."