Disney is getting into the spying game. And this time, they have a real-life spy as backup.
The company has nabbed a family comedy called Mother Of Invention, written by Joe D’Ambrosia and Tom Teves. In what must be one of the more interesting backgrounds for a kid-com, the story is based on the life of a real-life spy in San Francisco who also happens to be a single mother juggling two kids and a nanny. Her children are – somewhat understandably – unaware that she’s an espionage expert and she is going to retire before the film comes out. Or if someone from the Bush government decides to leak her identity.
The writers met the story’s basis at a party and immediately lobbied her to let them grab the rights to her life tale. The script will fictionalise some elements, and see a thirtysomething single mother takes a job to put food on her family’s table and becomes a commercial hacker who helps businesses tackle corporate espionage (think Robert Redford comedy drama Sneakers). She then teams up with the CIA on big cases, but her success causes rifts in her family life. Desperate Housewives meets Alias, then. With perhaps a little less arse-kicking.
"We've all seen a million spy movies, but the fun thing about this one is that we actually get to witness how a soccer mom, out of necessity, falls into being a highly sought-after spy," D'Ambrosia told The Hollywood Reporter. There’s no director attached yet.