Ssh… don’t tell anyone, because we’ll have to kill you, but it would seem that Lorenzo di Bonaventura might be producing a new spy movie.

We can only tell you a few absolute need-to-know details, because right now everything is very hush-hush and highly confidential. But it would seem that the movie is going to be based on a forthcoming Vanity Fair article, entitled The Shop, written by investigative journo, David Wise.

Note: Wise has written several novels on America’s history of covert intelligence, including The Spy Who Got Away: The Inside Story Of How The FBI’s Robert Hanssen Betrayed America, Nightmover: How Aldrich Ames Sold The CIA To The KGB For $4.6 Million and Spies Like Us: 101 Reasons Why The Chevy Chase And Dan Aykroyd Movie Is, Like, Totally The Funniest Movie Of All Time. He is not to be confused with ace Empire journalist, Damon Wise, codename James Booze. There’s also a small chance that he probably didn’t write the Spies Like Us book, probably because a) it doesn't exist and b) we just made it up.

Anyway, our source – let’s call them Viraety to protect their identity – says that Paramount have optioned the magazine article for di Bonaventura, the producer of Transformers and Stardust, and Jason Blum to work together on. We later found out, via a microdot contained within a kebab, that screenwriter Kelley Sane will write the screenplay.

Apart from that, Vanity Fair and the producers are loath to reveal any details about the magazine article, so sensitive is the material contained within. But that won’t stop intrepid Agent Empire endeavouring to find out the facts. If you know anything, meet us under the bridge at midnight. Wear a red carnation. And don’t forget the code phrase: “You mean, you managed to fill five paragraphs with virtually no information at all?”