Tom Hanks and Playtone partner Gary Goetzman have teamed with Universal to option the George Crile book Charlie Wilson's War, for Hanks to play Wilson.
The book is about how former Texas congressman Wilson persuaded the CIA to train and arm resistance fighters in Afghanistan, engineering a victory that hastened the fall of the Soviet Union.
Universal closed a deal Friday for the project and the studio, Hanks and Goetzman are eyeing Band of Brothers writer John Orloff to adapt.
Wilson teamed with a rogue CIA agent named Gust Avrakotos to keep the Red Army from overrunning Afghanistan. Wilson found an outlet to use his gift for maneuvering around red tape in Afghanistan. He and Avrakotos supplied money and put together a team of experts to mold an army that fought the Red Army to a stalemate.
Monday, July 27, 2009
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