Variety reports that Initial Entertainment Group and Johnny Depp have optioned the non-fiction book "The Bomb in My Garden" which was co-authored by Iraq's top nuclear scientist Mahdi Obeidi and People magazine foreign correspondent Kurt Pitzer.
The film will tell the story of how, after Saddam Hussein's capture, Obeidi tried to turn himself and his secrets over to the U.S., only to find the CIA and other government agencies didn't believe him. The journo hatched a scheme to get Obeidi and his family out of the country before he was killed by insurgents who wanted to silence him. Obeidi gave over secrets that included a uranium enrichment device he buried in his yard.
No word yet as to who may direct, co-star or a potential production date but this adds to the growing list of Iraq-themed movies in production right now.
Thanks to 'Juju'
