Warner Independent Pictures and Cherry Road Films have optioned the rights to Italian U.N. Diplomat Giandomenico Picco's memoir "Man Without a Gun." Stuart Beattie ("Collateral") has been tapped to adapt reports Reuters.
The book chronicles Picco's 20-year-plus career as a high-level diplomat helping to negotiate the Soviet withdrawal from Afghanistan and to bring an end to the Iran-Iraq war.
The story also follows Picco's role in resolving the Lebanon hostage crisis, which involved dangerous direct negotiations with the kidnappers in Beirut.
