While there hasn’t been word one on Kathryn Bigelow‘s re-teaming with her The Hurt Locker screenwriter Mark Boal on Triple Frontier in quite some time, it was officially announced tonight the Zero Dark Thirty has a new project brewing for Megan Ellison‘s Annapurna Pictures and Tom Hardy is set to star.
The film is an adaptation of Anand Giridharadas‘ non-fiction book “The True American: Murder and Mercy in Texas“, which tells the story of Raisuddin Bhuiyan, a Bangladesh Air Force officer who dreams of immigrating to America and working in technology. But days after 9/11, an avowed “American terrorist” named Mark Stroman, seeking revenge, walks into the Dallas minimart where Bhuiyan has found temporary work and shoots him, maiming and nearly killing him. Two other victims, at other gas stations, aren’t so lucky, dying at once.
[amz asin=”B00FQUDOQQ” size=”small”]The book follows these two men as they rebuild shattered lives–one striving on Death Row to become a better man, the other to heal and pull himself up from the lowest rung on the ladder of an unfamiliar country.
The official synopsis per the press release reads as follows:
The True American meticulously reconstructs two lives that collided in horrific fashion. In the charged, angry days after 9/11, self-styled “American Terrorist” Mark Stroman murdered two immigrants in Texas, while a third man survived being shot in the head during Stroman’s spree: Raisuddin Bhuiyan, a Bangladesh Air Force veteran, was working at a Dallas-area convenience store as he established himself in America.
I can only assume Hardy is attached as Stroman and without a screenwriter mentioned it’s hard to say when this will actually get underway. Hardy has Splinter Cell for Doug Liman coming up as well as Legend for Brian Helgeland and the Elton John biopic Rocketman in the pipeline so it isn’t as if he’s immediately available so perhaps we’re looking at a film that will shoot mid-to-late 2015 for a 2016 release.
