Bradley Cooper and Christian Bale Looking To Join Cold War Spy Movie BEST OF ENEMIES

Bradley Cooper and Christian Bale are in talks to reteam on an upcoming Cold War spy film titled Best of Enemies. The two previously worked together on America Hustle and this sounds like it’ll be another great project for the two of them were they’ll get to play a couple of interesting characters.

The film project is based on the book “Best of Enemies: The Last Great Spy Story of the Cold War” by Eric Dezenhall and Gus Russo.

Best of Enemies tells the story of “CIA agent Jack Platt and KGB agent Gennady Vasilenko, a pair of Cold War spies who developed an unlikely friendship at a time when they should have been anything but. Platt and Vasilenko were new entrants to the Washington, D.C. intelligence scene back in 1978, with the former working out of the CIA’s counterintelligence office and the latter, out of the Soviet Embassy. Remarkably, they came to establish strong personal ties, even after each was sent to seduce the other into betraying their country.”

It’s explained that they were “involved with solving some of the most famous spy stories of the 20th century, including the rooting out of Soviet mole Robert Hanssen. While Vasilenko spent some time in a Soviet prison after it came to the government’s attention that he’d been working as a double agent for the U.S., he was ultimately freed with help from the CIA during the Spy Swap of 2010.”

Sources say Cooper will play Platt, with Bale as Vasilenko. American Hustle scribe Eric Warren Singer is writing the script and Charles Roven (Oppenheimer) is set to produce. The project is being shopped around to studios and streaming services, and there’s no information on who will be directing the film.

Source: Deadline