Ethan and Joel Coen are teaming with Angelina Jolie on "Unbroken," a biopic of World War II hero Lou Zamperini at Universal Pictures and Walden Media. An adaptation of Laura Hillenbrand’s 2010 non-fiction tome, Zamperini was a Los Angeles high school track star who raced in the 1936 Berlin Olympics. In 1943, his Air Force plane crashed in the … [Read more...]
Jolie To Direct Hillenbrand’s “Unbroken”
December 19, 2012 by
Angelina Jolie is in talks to direct the World War II drama "Unbroken" at Universal Pictures and Walden Media. Based on Laura Hillenbrand's 2010 bestseller, the story chronicles the life of Olympic athlete Louis Zamperini. Zamperini was captured by the Japanese navy and detained at a P.O.W. camp. That came AFTER he survived both a near-fatal … [Read more...]
