Angelina Jolie brings Don McCullin’s biography to the big screen

Hollywood actress Angelina Jolie is preparing to bring the biography of press photographer Don McCullin to the big screen, through a film directed by her and starring Briton Tom Hardy. The film is based on the McCullin biography Unreasonable Behavior and Gregory Burke wrote the script. McCullin, 85, is considered one of the most popular war, conflict and poverty photographers of our time. Born in London, he worked as an assistant photographer during the Suez crisis before selling his first photo, of a gang in North London, to The Observer in 1959. Between 1966 and 1984, he worked as a reporter for the Sunday Times magazine, where covered crises in Vietnam and Ireland. Special tribute from the north.

Commenting on the new project, the British magazine “The Guardian” quoted Jolie as saying: “I am grateful to have the opportunity to re-photograph the life of Don McCullin … I am drawn to a unique combination of boldness and humanity: his commitment absolute witness to the truth of the war, his sympathy and respect. For those who suffer its consequences. We hope to make a relentless film like Don’s interpretation of the extraordinary people and events he has witnessed, and the rise and fall of a it was unique in journalism.
Julie’s 2015 film After By the Sea seems to have convinced McCullin to collaborate with her. “After seeing Angelina’s latest film about Cambodia, and after spending a lot of time there during the war, I was very impressed by the way she presented such a strong and accurate representation of the place at the time,” he said. He added: “I feel like I am in safe, capable and professional hands.”
Please note that the next film will be produced by Working Title together with Tom Hardy, Hardy Son & Baker.