NBC picks up CIA agent pilot

NBC has picked up a pilot about a CIA agent from writer Mark Bomback.

Bomback, who wrote the screenplay for Live Free or Die Hard, has sold the pilot to the NBC network along with producers Howard Gordon of 24 and Jonathan Levin of Charmed, writes The Hollywood Reporter.

The project is currently known as Legends. Based on a novel of the same title by Robert Littell, the story follows a government operative skilled in assuming 'legends' (false identities) as he carries out a number of missions, while also being faced with the possibility that his own identity may be a 'legend' too.