It appears as though Russell Crowe will join Leonardo DiCaprio in Sir Ridley Scott’s Body of Lies.

Roger Ferris (DiCaprio) is one of the CIA’s soldiers in the war on terrorism. He has come out of Iraq with a shattered leg and an intense mission—to penetrate the network of a master terrorist known only as “Suleiman.” Ferris’s plan for getting inside Suleiman’s tent is inspired by a masterpiece of British intelligence during World War II: He prepares a body of lies, literally the corpse of an imaginary CIA officer who appears to have accomplished the impossible by recruiting an agent within the enemy’s ranks.This scheme binds friend and foe in a web of extraordinary subtlety and complexity, and when it begins to unravel, Ferris finds himself flying blind into a hurricane. His only hope is the urbane head of Jordan’s intelligence service—a man who might be an Arab version of John le Carré’s celebrated spy, George Smiley. But can Ferris trust him?

Body of Lies is the latest novel by Washington Post columnist David Ignatius.

Crowe would play DiCaprio’s boss Ed Hoffman. According to Dark Horizons, Crowe is waiting to see the new draft by Steve Zaillian. Zillian’s previous work has included Shindler’s List, A Civil Action and Clear and Present Danger.

Zallian’s draft is reportedly simply a tweaking of the script written by William Monahan (The Departed).