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26 May 2006
Kill Churchill
Assassination drama pitched
Source: The Hollywood Reporter

As if the legacy of cigar-chomping wartime PM Winston Churchill hadn’t suffered enough in Churchill: The Hollywood Years, he’s now being targeted for assassination.

You might argue it’s a little late, given that he’s been dead since 1965, but Warren Adler’s novel Target Churchill spins the tale that Joseph Stalin planned to have him offed during World War Two.

Producer Tony DiDio and director Kevin Connor (Sunset Grill) have commissioned Adler to write a script based on his book, with a shoot planned for January in the US and Europe. Now all they need is a cast…

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