Amy Adams

According to The Hollywood Reporter, Amy Adams is in negotiations to star opposite Tom Hanks in CHARLIE WILSON'S WAR for Universal Pictures.

Mike Nichols is directing the drama, which is being produced by Hanks and Gary Goetzman via Playtone.

The story tells of the CIA's largest and most successful covert CIA operation, the arming of the Mujahedeen in Afghanistan. The covert ops were engineered by Charlie Wilson (Hanks), a charismatic, wheeler-dealer, liberal Texas congressman who teamed with a rogue CIA operative. The two manipulated Congress, the CIA and a host of foreign governments in order to assist the Afghan rebels in their fight against the Soviets in the 1980s. Many of the men armed by the CIA went on to become the Taliban's enforcers and Osama bin Laden's protectors.