Scott Bakula has landed the second lead role in Steven Soderbergh’s The Informant, in which he will act opposite Matt Damon. In the Warner Independent espionage thriller, Bakula will portray “Brian Shepherd, an FBI agent who exposes an international price-fixing scheme with the help of biochemist Mark Whitacre (Damon).” Based on a true story, The Informant was adapted by Scott Burns from the book by Kurt Eichenwald.