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PRODUCTION UK / Australia

Colin Firth to ride on Railway

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Oscar and BAFTA winning British actor Colin Firth will play the lead in Australian Director Jonathan Teplitzky’s The Railway Man.

The film will be based on former British army signals officer Eric Lomax’s eponymous memoir where he describes his suffering as a Japanese prisoner of war during World War 2 where he had to work on the Burma-Siam railroad, and his subsequent attempt to gain revenge half a century later.

Frank Cottrell-Boyce (A Cock And Bull Story) and Andy Paterson adapted the book. The film is a co-production between the UK’s Archer Street Productions and Australia’s Pictures In Paradise with financing from the UK’s Latitude Media. Cottrell-Boyce, Paterson, Chris Brown and Bill Curbishley will produce and Lionsgate UK’s Zygi Kamasa to serve as executive producer.

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Principal photography will commence at UK, Thailand and Australia locations in February 2012.

Lionsgate will distribute in the UK.

Firth’s next release is Tomas Alfredson’s Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy [+see also:
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followed by Michael Hoffman’s Gambit. He is also due to star in Dante Ariola’s Arthur Newman, Golf Pro.

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