By Ryan Parsons | Image property of respective holders, Variety
Killing Rommel
It wouldn't be a proper week if we didn't have at least one acquisition of a novel. Teaming up with Disney, Jerry Bruckheimer has acquired the screen rights to Steven Pressfield's Killing Rommel.
Killing Rommel Set for Adaptation
Bruckenheimer has come aboard to produce the project while Randall Wallace has been selected to adapt the novel into a working script.
Killing Rommel focuses on the British Long Range Desert Group and its attempt to stop Rommel, the legendary Desert Fox who routed the British in the North African desert in 1942 and threatened to overrun the Middle East thanks to his battlefield strategies and Panzer tanks.
Wallace is no stranger to war stories, as it was he who wrote Braveheart, Pearl Harbor and We Were Soldiers; which he also directed.
Showing how competitive novel acquisitions have become, Killing Rommel was only published this last spring.
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