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Brad Pitt Buys Rights To Film About Slain Journalist Daniel Pearl


10-19-03 Keavin
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Warner Bros., has purchased the rights to Mariane Pearl�s memoir "A Mighty Heart: The Brave Life and Death of My Husband Danny Pearl". Pearl was the Wall Street Journal�s South Asian bureau chief who was kidnapped in murdered by Islamic radicals in Pakistan last year. The story gets even more tragic with the fact that his wife was pregnant with his son at the time of his murder. 

Warner Bros., plans to make the film and purchased the rights for Plan B Prods., the production company headed by Brad Pitt, Jennifer Aniston and producer Brad Grey. 

The 38-year-old journalist was kidnapped in Karachi last January while he was on assignment investigating the Al Qaeda terrorist network. His capturers released a brutal videotape of his murder a few weeks later. At least one terrorist has been sentenced to death for his role in the kidnapping / murder.  .




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