Best-selling author and New Yorker writer Malcolm Gladwell has just been hired by Disney to “smarten up” the script Hexum.

Gladwell, known for his research in the social sciences, will be improving a script written by David Arata who wrote Spy Games and Children Of Men.

Deadline states…”The Hexum protagonist is a CIA threat assessment analyst, an alternative thinking brainiac who is relegated to a distant corner of the CIA where he assembles theories nobody pays attention to. By connecting a series of seemingly random occurrences, he uncovers a sinister adversary planning an imminent global threat. And of course, his biggest challenge is to get anybody to believe him.”

Gladwell is best known for his books Blink and Outliers.