Hugh Jackman to produce and star in CIA spy thriller

Hugh Jackman will produce and star in a movie adaptation of Robert Littell's CIA spy thriller "The Amateur," reports said.

The Australian star of the "X-Men" trilogy and recent hit "The Prestige" will play a CIA worker whose fiancee is killed in a suspicious plane crash, film daily Variety reported.

When Jackman's character discovers the plane was blown up by terrorists, he persuades his bosses to train him to hunt down the killers and exact revenge.

Littell's novel was set during the Cold War and was previously turned into a 1981 film. The new picture will update the setting to the modern day.

Jackman is currently working on a movie with Ewan McGregor about seedy underground sex clubs in New York, and is scheduled to star opposite Nicole Kidman in Baz Luhrmann's new film.