BioPic’s aboard ‘Soldier’ story – Entertainment News, Film News, Media – Variety.
Will Raee to direct Uma Thurman starrer
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BioPic Entertainment has joined forces with Caspian Pictures to co-produce indie drama “Girl Soldier,” with Uma Thurman to star and Will Raee to direct.
The film will depict the true-life plight of 30 Ugandan girls who were abducted by rebel soldiers. Project’s been in development since 2009, when Caspian announced it had attached Thurman to the project (Variety, July 21, 2009).
Story’s based on Kathy Cook’s book “Stolen Angels,” which follows the 1996 raid at a boarding school in which armed rebels abducted young girls to turn them into soldiers and sex slaves. A teacher tracked the rebels back to their camp to demand the girls’ release; 110 were returned to the nun, who then began a crusade over the next few years as she rallied parents, the government, the U.N. and the pope to aid in rescuing not only her girls but other children in rebel captivity.
Producers are aiming to begin shooting in March in South Africa.
BioPic Entertainment, founded by Michael Hennessy, Brian A. Bullock and Robert G. Edner, is focused on TV and film based on iconic personalities and historic events. BioPic also recently announced the development of Wendy Randall’s “Mahjong Wives,” a series set in the 1960s about the five Jewish mob wives who covertly ran Las Vegas through their husbands, as well as “Black Rangers.” Latter is the untold story of the U.S. Army’s only all-black company of elite Airborne Rangers who helped turn the tide of the Korean War.
BioPic is repped by Paradigm.
A BRILLIANT GENOCIDE 
Last week in Los Angeles I was fortunate to have the opportunity of meeting the director of ‘Girl Soldiers, Will Raee. He is a wonderful and talented character that I believe I will have a long relationship with.
It was however so bizarre to have met a Hollywood director – from the other side of the planet, working on a film that is concerned with the exact same obscure topic that I myself have been working on for 3 years! I am in talks with Will about getting involved with the production of ‘Girl Soldier’ when they begin filming in Africa next year.
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