Country music singer Billy Ray Cyrus is joining Jackie Chan's new action comedy film "The Spy Next Door."

The film will center on a man, played by the Asian action star, asked to babysit his neighbor's kids, all the while protecting them from dangerous foreign agents after one of the children accidentally downloads a code.

Cyrus, teen star Miley Cyrus' TV and real-life dad, will play a CIA agent, along with actor George Lopez.

Supermodel Amber Valleta and Katherine Boecher will also star, playing the kids' mother and a Russian underworld operative respectively.

"The Spy Next Door" is directed by Brian Levant and will be released in 2010.