Having carved out a successful career on television, co-creating Homeland and Tyrant, Gideon Raff is now setting his sights on getting back to the movies. He's already attached to adapt Alice LaPlante's novel Turn Of Mind for Fox, and he's now also sold his treatment for Operation Brothers to the same studio.
Raff will write, produce and direct the film, based on the true story of the evacuation of Jewish Ethiopian Civil War refugees from from Sudan to Israel in the late 1970s and early '80s. On the orders of then-Prime Minister Menachem Begin, Mossad set up a secret base in a deserted Sudanese holiday camp, and orchestrated the mass extraction by sea and air. It's Argo meets Exodus, is no doubt the pitch somewhere. Alexandra Milchan (The Wolf Of Wall Street) is producing.
Raff was an assistant to Doug Liman on Mr. & Mrs Smith before going on to direct thrillers The Killing Floor and Train (the latter starring Thora Birch) in the late '00s. He then fell into TV, writing and directing 24 episodes of Prisoners Of War, and creating the two aforementioned big hitters. He's also behind this year's FBI archaeology mystery series Dig, starring Jason Isaacs and Anne Heche..
Neither Operation Brothers nor Turn Of Mind has a start date so far.