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Tom Hardy to play war photographer Don McCullin in new biopic

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British actor Tom Hardy has signed up to play war photographer Don McCullin in a brand new biopic for Working Title Films. News of the movie, which will be written by ’71 screenwriter Gregory Burke, adapted from McCullin’s autobiography Unreasonable Behaviour, hit the web via trade blog Deadline.

The website reports that the ‘book is an unflinching account of McCullin’s journey from a poverty-stricken childhood in wartime London to becoming one of the most famous war photojournalists. Working for the Sunday Times from the late 60’s to the early 80’s, he risked his life to photograph the harsh realities of war from Vietnam, Cambodia, to Biafra and Uganda, one black and white image at a time.’

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Here’s the official synopsis of the source material from Amazon.

From the construction of the Berlin Wall through every conflict up to the Falklands War, photographer Don McCullin has left a trail of iconic images.

At the Sunday Times Magazine in the 1960s, McCullin’s photography made him a new kind of hero. The flow of stories every Sunday took a generation of readers beyond the insularity of post-war Britain and into the recesses of domestic deprivation: when in 1968, a year of political turmoil, the Beatles wanted new pictures, they insisted on using McCullin; when Francis Bacon, whose own career had emerged with depiction of the ravages of the flesh, wanted a portrait, he turned to McCullin.

McCullin now spends his days quietly in a Somerset village, where he photographs the landscape and arranges still-lifes – a far cry from the world’s conflict zones and the war-scarred north London of Holloway Road where his career began.

In October 2015, it will be twenty-five years since the first publication of his autobiography, Unreasonable Behaviour – a harrowing memoir combining his photojournalism with his lifework.

No news on when the film could head into production – Hardy is currently working on Christopher Nolan’s next Dunkirk – but we’ll obviously bring you more as we get it.

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