First Photos From Ridley Scott’s “Body Of Lies” With Leo DiCaprio

Some of the first photos have hit the net from the set of Ridley Scott’s (Gladiator, American Gangster) adaptation of the David Ignatius novel, Body Of Lies.

The film, “Body Of Lies,” stars Leonardo DiCaprio as Roger Ferris, an injured former Iraq War journalist who is hired by the CIA to track down an Al Qaeda leader. The book was turned into a screenplay by the Oscar winning screenwriter William Monahan (The Departed). Russell Crowe also stars.

I don’t know a whole lot about it yet other than what the description of the book tells us.

Roger Ferris is one of the CIA’s soldiers in the war on terrorism. He has come out of Iraq with a shattered leg and an intense mission�to penetrate the network of a master terrorist known only as “Suleiman.� Ferris’s plan for getting inside Suleiman’s tent is inspired by a masterpiece of British intelligence during World War II: He prepares a body of lies, literally the corpse of an imaginary CIA officer who appears to have accomplished the impossible by recruiting an agent within the enemy’s ranks. This scheme binds friend and foe in a web of extraordinary subtlety and complexity, and when it begins to unravel, Ferris finds himself flying blind into a hurricane. His only hope is the urbane head of Jordan’s intelligence service�a man who might be an Arab version of John le Carré’s celebrated spy, George Smiley. But can Ferris trust him?

“Body of Lies” will hit theaters in the Fourth Quarter of 2008.