Netflix has bought the rights for Israeli director Ariel Vromen’s new spy thriller The Angel: The Egyptian Spy Who Saved Israel, according to Flickering Myth. The USD 12 mn low-budget production is based on Israeli intelligence scholar Uri Bar Joseph’s best-seller by the same name and tells the allegedly “true story of high-ranking Egyptian official Ashraf Marwan, who became a spy for Israel” despite being then-president Gamal Abdel Nasser’s son in-law and a close personal adviser to late president Anwar Sadat. The film, currently in production, stars Dutch-Tunisian actor Marwan Kenzari as “the most famous spy in the history of the Middle East.” The Daily Beast has an excerpt from the book, which we’ve noted in the past.

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