Caffeinated Clint
Beattie doing movie on U.S aid worker, Fred Cuny
Australian screenwriter Stuart Beattie (“Collateral”) will pen a movie about U.S. aid worker Fred Cuny, says
Variety.
The film will focus on the death-defying disaster-relief exploits of Cuny, a Texan who became known as the Master of Disaster for his accomplishments in unstable places like Iraq, Ethiopia, Somalia, Bosnia and Chechnya. He went missing in Chechnya in 1995 as he tried to negotiate a ceasefire. It is believed that he was murdered there.
“I have been involved with Fred Cuny’s story for many years, thanks to David Fanning and ‘Frontline,’ ” said Spitfire Film’s Nigel Sinclair. “When Stuart called me out of the blue, saying he had been independently pursuing a story on Fred’s life, I knew we had found the perfect creative partner.”
This one will be quite a test for Beattie – whose known for his more ‘popcornish’ flicks like “Pirates of the Caribbean”, “Derailed” and “30 Days of Night”. Everyone has to grow up eventually though…. As Ma keeps reminding me.
