The Witness
Earning My Ears
- Joined
- Aug 26, 2006
- Messages
- 11
Disney sets terrorist tale
Bruckheimer bags 'Jihadists'
By MICHAEL FLEMING
Disney and producer Jerry Bruckheimer have acquired screen rights to "Jihadists in Paradise," a Mark Bowden article published in the March issue of Atlantic Monthly. Bowden is set to write the screenplay.
[...]
"Jihadists in Paradise" details the emergence in the Philippines of the Islamic terrorist faction Abu Sayyaf and one of its leaders, Aldam Tilao. Tilao put his group on the map by sneaking by boat into a diving resort and taking 20 hostages, including three Americans. He and his armed thugs beheaded one of the Americans and dragged the other two -- a missionary couple [Martin and Gracia Burnham] -- across the jungles for a year and a half.
Tilao was eventually tracked down and killed after a long search by the CIA and Filipino military forces. While Bowden's books and articles are being developed into such films as the Scott Rudin-produced "Guests of the Ayatollah" and the Bob Yari-produced "Killing Pablo," the "Jihadist" script will be just his second.
[...]
from Variety online; posted Feb 15, 2007
Bruckheimer bags 'Jihadists'
By MICHAEL FLEMING
Disney and producer Jerry Bruckheimer have acquired screen rights to "Jihadists in Paradise," a Mark Bowden article published in the March issue of Atlantic Monthly. Bowden is set to write the screenplay.
[...]
"Jihadists in Paradise" details the emergence in the Philippines of the Islamic terrorist faction Abu Sayyaf and one of its leaders, Aldam Tilao. Tilao put his group on the map by sneaking by boat into a diving resort and taking 20 hostages, including three Americans. He and his armed thugs beheaded one of the Americans and dragged the other two -- a missionary couple [Martin and Gracia Burnham] -- across the jungles for a year and a half.
Tilao was eventually tracked down and killed after a long search by the CIA and Filipino military forces. While Bowden's books and articles are being developed into such films as the Scott Rudin-produced "Guests of the Ayatollah" and the Bob Yari-produced "Killing Pablo," the "Jihadist" script will be just his second.
[...]
from Variety online; posted Feb 15, 2007
