Paramount picks up Blake Lively's thriller 'The Rhythm Section'

Paramount pictures are getting into some 'spy' business.

According to The Hollywood Reporter, The studio has picked up 'The Rhythm Section', a spy thriller package that has Blake Lively attached to star.

Reed Morano, who directed three episodes of 'The Handmaid's Tale', attached to helm.

According to the studio, the movie will be a contemporary adaptation of the first of British thriller writer Mark Burnell's Stephanie Patrick series of four novels.

The synopsis of the movie centers on Patrick (Lively) is on a path of self-destruction after the death of her family in an airplane crash, a flight that she was meant to be on. After discovering that the crash was not an accident, her anger awakens a new sense of purpose and she rises to uncover the truth by adopting the identity of an assassin to track down those responsible.

The new, and lethal, Stephanie Patrick is on a mission to fill the void between what she knows and what she is told.

Other novels in Burnell's popular series include 'Gemini', 'The Third Woman' and 'Chameleon'. The studio is hoping the collaboration is successful enough to launch a global franchise.

Producing are Michael G. Wilson and Barbara Broccoli of EON Productions, who know a thing or two about the spy-film world as they produced the last eight James Bond movies.