Jay Roach has been announced as the director for Warner Bros. adaptation of Mad Dogs.
According to The Hollywood Reporter, Roach will direct while Dan Lin of The Lego Movie will serve as producer.
Screenwriter Wes Jones will adapt the script, based on the novel from Six Days of the Condor author James Grady according to Variety. Jones and Roach are currently working together on The Brink, an HBO political comedy starring Tim Robbins and Jack Black which will premiere later this year.
The novel revolves around three dysfunctional guys working low-level jobs in U.S. Intelligence who have been deemed crazy and sent to a government mental hospital for spies. Convinced that someone wants them dead, they hatch a plan to escape. They obviously know too much but their only hope to survive is to figure out what exactly it is that they know.
The current plan is to do an action-comedy update of the 1970s conspiracy genre.
Roach's previous work includes The Campaign, Austin Powers: International Man of Mystery, Meet the Parents, and Trumbo.
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