Ansel Elgort to Star in CIA Drama ‘Code Name Veil’ 

  

Fault In Our Stars and Divergent actor, Ansel Elgort is set to star in CIA drama ‘Code Name veil.’

In the film, which is inspired by real events, Elgort would play a rookie CIA agent who investigates the attacks against the U.S. Embassy and Marine barracks during the bombings in Beirut in 1983. When his station chief is taken hostage, the young and inexperienced agent finds himself turning to desperate measures to save his mentor.

Michael Cuesta is set to direct the film from a script by Matt Billingsly.

Trent Luckinbill, Thad Luckinbill and Molly Smith are producing while Jon Schumacher and Ellen H. Schwartz will executive produce.