Both Ridley Scott and Gerard Butler love lining up endless projects that they put into development and wait to percolate, and now they’ve got one they want to make together, although it’s unlikely to be the next project for either. According to Deadline, Scott and Butler are tempting studios with a pitch they’re both on-board for, about mercenary Simon Mann.
Mann is ‘A former British army officer who in 2004 put together a band of mercenaries to attempt a coup against the president of Equatorial Guinea. The coup attempt was thwarted in Zimbabwe, where Mann went to pick up weapons. He spent five years in a harsh prison there before being taken to Equatorial Guinea where he was sentenced to 34 years–but spared that sentence when he received a presidential pardon in 2009.. His backers – Mann said one was Mark Thatcher, son of Margaret Thatcher – disavowed involvement with Mann after the coup failed.’
Mann himself is involved with the film and he and his wife Amanda have been making the rounds at the studios, making a pitch for the movie. Insiders say there are high hopes this will end in a deal – and with Scott and Butler attached, it almost certainly will.
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