Monday, June 20, 2011

Most Wanted Becomes A Film

"The American" director Anton Corbijn  is set to helma film version of  John le Carré recent political thriller "A Most Wanted Man says The Hollywood Reporter.



The story follows a Chechian Muslim Issa who illegally immigrates to Hamburg, where he soon finds himeself wated on terrorist charges

The story is loosely based on Murat Kurnaz, a Turkish citizen and legal German resident seized by American authorities and sent to the U.S. military prison at Guantanamo Bay Naval Base, in Cuba before being released without charge in 2006.

Andrew Bovell ("Edge of Darkness") will adapt Le Carre's novel and Corbijn will shoot the bulk of the film in Hamburg this winter

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