"The Last Samurai" & "The Siege" Director Ed Zwick has signed on to helm the adventure drama "Diamond" for Warner Bros. Pictures says The Hollywood Reporter.
Formerly known as "Okavango," "Diamond" recounts the story of a poor African farmer who gets caught up in a conflict between an American diamond smuggler and the syndicate that controls the local diamond-mining industry, all in the path of one very valuable diamond.
Zwick and Bedford Falls partner Marshall Herskovitz rewrote the original script from Charlie Mitchell. Charles Leavitt also did a rewrite. Zwick is currently attached to direct "Happy Endings", "The Lions of Al-Rassan" & "Who Killed Daniel Pearl?"
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