Disney, together with producer Jerry Bruckheimer, have purchased the rights to make Jihadists in Paradise. The film will be based on an Atlantic Monthly article by Mark Bowden, who will also write the script. As Variety reports, Bruckheimer and Bowden have worked together before, specifically on Black Hawk Down which was based on Bowden's book.
Jihadists in Paradise is about the terrorist group Abu Sayyaf, which is based in the Philippines, and how one of its leaders made a name for the Islamic group by taking 20 hostages at a resort, eventually beheading one of the American hostages and dragging the other two Americans (missionaries) through the jungle for over a year.
Bowden has other projects in development, including Guests of the Ayatollah and Killing Pablo (both based on his books and articles), as well as another film that he's scripting about "extraordinary rendition" (the effective questionable method of sending suspected terrorists to other countries for interrogation and/or incarceration). |