Angelina Jolie to direct biopic about wartime photographer Don McCullin

Hollywood star Angelina Jolie is set to direct a biopic about legendary war photographer Don McCullin.

According to The Guardian, the project is being produced by Tom Hardy and Dean Baker under their Hardy Son & Baker banner alongside Working Title Films’ Tim Bevan and Eric Fellner. McCullin and Mark George are executive producing.

BAFTA-nominated screenwriter Gregory Burke is penning the screenplay.

“I am humbled to have a chance to bring Don McCullin’s life to film. I was drawn to his unique combination of fearlessness and humanity – his absolute commitment to witnessing the truth of war, and his empathy and respect for those who suffer its consequences.

"We hope to make a film that is as uncompromising as Don’s photography, about the extraordinary people and events he witnessed, and the rise and fall of a unique era in journalism," Jolie said.

McCullin, whose six-decade-long career spans world-renowned coverage of the Vietnam War, said Jolie''s work on Loung Ung''s memoir "First They Killed My Father" --about the genocidal Khmer Rouge regime in 1970s Cambodia -- convinced him that his life story was in "safe and capable" hands.

“Having viewed Angelina’s last film on Cambodia (and having spent so much time during the war there) I was very impressed at how she made such a powerful and accurate representation of the place at that time. I feel as if I am in safe, capable and professional hands with her," he said.

"Unreasonable Behaviour" is Jolie''s fifth scripted feature as a director, following "In the Land of Blood and Honey" (2011), "Unbroken" (2014), "By the Sea" (2015), "First They Killed My Father" (2017).