Washington DC, March 13 -- Oscar winner Russell Crowe has joined the star-studded team of 'Billon Dollar Spy' which stars Harry Lawtey in the lead role who played the iconic Harvey Dent's role in Warner Bros. Joker: Folie a Deux, reported Deadline.

Oscar-winning writer Stephen Gaghan wrote the most recent draft of the film, revising a script penned by Ben August. The screenplay is adapted from the bestselling book by David E. Hoffman, as per the outlet.

According to Deadline, the film is set against the high-stakes backdrop of the late Cold War. It follows Adolf Tolkachev (Crowe), an ordinary man who risks everything to pass thousands of pages of top-secret Soviet intelligence to the U.S. Despite repeated rejections by a wary CIA, Tolka...