A little more pilot season news as Brett Ratner has signed on to direct a spy drama at Fox.
According to Deadline, Ratner will be taking on the pilot from writer Karyn Usher (The Playboy Club). He will be both directing and executive producing the pilot, which has the working title, Mountains of China White. The directing job comes from Ratner's new overall deal that he signed in August with 20th TV.
The story revolves around the orphaned daughter of CIA operative who is recruited at the age of 17 to become an operative herself. She meets a strange rogue agent who becomes her professional mentor and a sort of surrogate father.
The project is being produced at 20th Century Fox TV with 21 Laps/Adelstein Productions. Usher, Marty Adelstein, Becky Clements, and Shawn Levy will all be executive producing alongside Ratner.
