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09/05/2006
Book about Daniel Pearl to become film
Actor Josh Lucas is to star as a fictitious newsman in a new thriller based on a book about the death of Wall Street Journal correspondent Daniel Pearl.
In Who Killed Daniel Pearl, author Bernard-Henri Levy speculates about the murder of the journalist who was kidnapped in Pakistan and killed in 2002.
In the book, the French author-philosopher described his daring journey into Pakistan to investigate the kidnapping and murder.
Levy suggests Pearl may have uncovered complicity between the Pakistani secret service and Al Qaeda.
The film has fictionalized the Pearl character while Levy has been changed into an American TV newsman who sheds his media celebrity trappings to find answers in a terrorist hotbed.
The Lucas film will be the first of two new movies about the journalist - Warner Brothers executives are also planning to adapt a book by Pearl's widow, Marianne, into another film.
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