Double Down

Richard Gere and Topher Grace are teaming for the espionage thriller "The Double" says Variety.

Gere plays a retired Central Intelligence Agency operative who is reactivated to find the Soviet assassin Cassius, a killer long thought to be dead who seems to be behind the recent murder of a senator.

Grace would play a young FBI agent teamed up with Gere who spent much of his career tracking Cassius down.

Michael Brandt, co-writer of the "3:10 to Yuma " remake and "Wanted", makes his directorial debut on the project which he also wrote with pal Derek Haas,

Filming starts this June in Detroit.