Theron Produces Colvin Biopic

Charlize Theron and producer Basil Iwanyk are gearing up for a film about recently killed war journalist Marie Colvin says The Hollywood Reporter.

Colvin was a well-known American war correspondent who covered conflicts in Kosovo, Chechnya, East Timor, Sri Lanka and other locales. She went through three divorces and post-traumatic stress disorder, and died in February while covering the Syrian civil war

Iwanyk has optioned the film rights to author Marie Brenner's Vanity Fair article Marie Colvin’s Private War while Theron,  Beth Kono and Aj Dix are in talks to join Iwanyk as producers.

The pic could also be an acting vehicle for Theron but she is not committed to star.

Another one of Brenner's articles-The Man Who Knew Too Much was turned into a film-Michael Mann's highly acclaimed 1999 drama "The Insider".