This will be the fourth time Crowe collaborates with director Ridley Scott. They have worked on Gladiator (2000), A Good Year (2006), and American Gangster, co-starring Denzel Washinton, which will be out in November.
Body of Lies is a suspense movie based on the movel by David Ignatius, written by William Monahan (The Departed). In this movie, Crowe plays Ed Hoffman, a manipulative boss at the CIA, who teams up with the efficient Roger Ferris to capture a dangerous director of Al Qaeda, who was planning to attack the United States.