Stanley Tucci is an all-round class act, a stalwart actor and an Empire Hero. He also recently had an entire Saturday Night Live song sketch devoted to him{
Rosamund Pike is starring as Colvin, with Arash Amel on script duty adapting Marie Brenner's 2012 Vanity Fair article Marie Colvin's Private War. It'll chronicle the work of the journalist, who filed reports from conflict zones including Chechnya, Kosovo, Sierra Leone, Zimbabwe and Sri Lanka, where she lost her left eye in 2001. She became known for her distinctive patch, and kept working, dying during a rocket attack in 2012 while covering the civil war in Syria.
Matthew Heineman is swapping documentaries for this, which doesn't feel like too much of a stretch from the likes of his work including Cartel Land. Tucci's role hasn't been specified, but he's joining the cast now that the film's production has shifted to London for its latest stint. Oh, despite earlier reports that Taron Egerton would be joining the cast, he's not apparently involved.
A Private War has yet to nab a release date, but you can seen Tucci in upcoming films including Patient Zero, Nomis and The Silence. He's also got a voice role in chatty-canine-cop comedy Show Dogs, arriving on 25 May.
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