Overview
- The project, announced Thursday, is a Disney+ development of Stuart Gibbs’s 14‑book Spy School series with Chris Fedak writing and serving as an executive producer.
- Ryan Reynolds’ production company Maximum Effort, author Stuart Gibbs and veteran producer Emma Watts are also attached as executive producers and 20th Television is the studio.
- The series premise follows teenager Ben Ripley, who discovers his magnet school is secretly a CIA academy, a logline drawn directly from the books.
- Gibbs’s Spy School novels have sold more than 12 million copies and the 14th book, Spy School Goes East, is scheduled for publication in October 2026.
- The show remains in early development with no series order, casting, production schedule or release date announced, and next steps are expected to include script work, a pilot or series order and casting.