James Cameron´s True Lies is heading to ABC

James Cameron is heading to the small screen. The acclaimed director’s TV adaptation of his 1994 hit True Lies has landed at ABC.

The network has made a script deal with penalty for the project. Lightstorm Entertainment and 20th Century Fox TV are producing with Rene Echevarria as writer/showrunner and co-exec producer, according to industry publication The Hollywood Reporter.

The plot of True Lies — about a super-spy whose family discovers his real job — is territory that been touched upon in recent years in projects such as My Own Worst Enemy and the upcoming Undercovers.

If it gets the go ahead, the project will mark the Avatar and Titanic director’s first TV series after his Fox drama Dark Angel, which aired back in 2000.