Newest secret agent is nine-year-old Joe 90

The film world’s newest secret agent will be a nine-year-old boy who will star in the Walt Disney Co.’s Joe 90, a live action film based on husband-and-wife team Gerry and Sylvia Anderson's cult television puppet series.

Joe 90 ran from September 1968 until March 1969 and followed the adventures of a boy agent for the World Intelligence Network - an organisation which maintained the balance of power in the world by any means necessary.

The original Joe 90 was written by Anderson, who also produced and co-wrote the Thunderbirds series and the films Thunderbirds Are Go and Thunderbirds Six.

A remake of Thunderbirds is currently being filmed at Universal under the direction of Star Trek actor-director Jonathan Frakes.

The search is now on for a young actor to play Joe 90 who, thanks to an electronic device that looks like a pair of eyeglasses, can transfer the brain patterns of the greatest experts in the world to help him accomplish almost anything to complete his missions.