When we saw
Gerard Butler on the big screen in the fall, he was flying off to a world
trouble spot in Machine Gun Preacher, in which he played a real-life
missionary-cum-mercenary in the Sudan.
Get ready for
another fact-based period story, also set in a far-flung international hotspot,
from Butler, who this time around will be involved as a producer.
Butler is
gaining momentum in Hollywood for The Septembers of Shiraz, the
movie version of Dalia Sofer’s well-regarded debut novel from a few years back.
The project recently signed up a director, the Brazilian Heitor Dhalia (the
coming-of-age tale “Adrift,” the recent thriller “Gone”), according to a person
familiar with the project who was not authorized to talk about it publicly. The
film will be based on a script by Hanna Weg, who also wrote the upcoming action
thriller The Bricklayer for Butler. Casting is underway, with the film expected
to lock down its leads in the coming weeks.
Though Butler
will serve only in a producerial capacity, the film counts heavy involvement
from the actor's camp. Also producing are Alan Siegel and Danielle Robinson,
who work closely with Butler at his production company (Siegel first optioned
the book), as well as Heidi Jo Markel, who is collaborating with Butler on his
upcoming romantic dramedy Playing the Field and his White House thriller Olympus Has Fallen.
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