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Russell Crowe has nabbed a lead role in survival drama “In Sand and Blood”.
Ronan Bennett penned the script based on Dean King’s nonfiction book “Skeletons on the Zahara: A True Story of Survival”.
The Wrap broke the news and describes the story as follows:
“In 1815, an American brig, the Commerce, was wrecked on the desolate coast fringing the Western Sahara. Starving and dying of thirst, its 12 man crew were captured, stripped, beaten and enslaved, kept barely alive on camel blood and urine. Five were never to be seen again, the others sold to a succession of tribesmen who bought and bartered each man for as little as a tattered blanket.
An Arab trader, Sidi Hamet, then bought Captain James Riley (Crowe) and some of his men, aiming only to sell them on at a profit. By impassioned advocacy and sheer bluff, Riley convinced Hamet that he would receive a far greater ransom from a European consul — that in truth existed only in Riley’s imagination — who was supposedly based in a Moroccan port a thousand miles to the north. What followed was an epic, terrifying and, for some, ultimately fateful trek across one of the most extreme environments on earth.”
Luc Roeg will produce and Stuart Ford will exec produce.
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— Russell Crowe (@russellcrowe) September 24, 2015
