Colin Firth Would Be The Railway Guy

He'll play a genuine-existence POWPeriod dramas have offered Colin Firth rather well lately, with an Oscar for that King's Speech and lots of festival popularity of Mess, Tailor, Soldier, Spy. He'll be wishing that trend continues as he's became a member of World War Two Bang pic The Railway Guy. Jonathan Teplitzky is pointing the film, which Millions author Frank Cottrell Bryce and Andy Paterson have modified from former military officer Eric Lomax's book about his time spent taken through the Japanese and focusing on the making of the "dying railway" between Thailand and Burma. But it is not every centered on his Bang encounters - younger crowd put down decades later to find his tormentors and exact some revenge. The Railway Guy is definitely an amazing story and to achieve the chance to really make it with Colin Firth as Eric is usually the best gift any director could expect,Inch Teplitzky stated inside a statement acquired through the Hollywood Reporter. He earned the announcement in the Toronto Film Festival, where he's premiering his latest film, Burning Guy. Lionsgate is searching to lock lower some purchasers in the festival and Lionsgate United kingdom will handle the film right here. Once all of the deals have been in place, Teplitzky will start shooting in Feb with filming looking for the United kingdom, Thailand and Australia.