Argentine Academy Award and Golden Globe winner Armanda Bó has set as his next feature a film on the heroic opposition of the Buenos Aires Herald and its editor Robert Cox to Argentina’s heinous 1976-83 military dictatorship.
To make the film, About Entertainment, Bó’s new Buenos Aires based production house, has acquired the rights to the script “Dirty War,” written by Michael Steinberger, a journalist for The New York Times Magazine.
The screenplay is based on the book “Dirty Secrets, Dirty War: The Exile of Robert J. Cox,” written by Cox’s son, David Cox.
Bó, who won an Academy Award and Golden Globe for co-writing the screenplay of “Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance),” will produce and direct the movie.
It will tell an inspiring story of exemplary courage in extraordinary and horrifying circumstance: How the Buenos Aires Herald, an English-language daily newspaper, became under Robert...
To make the film, About Entertainment, Bó’s new Buenos Aires based production house, has acquired the rights to the script “Dirty War,” written by Michael Steinberger, a journalist for The New York Times Magazine.
The screenplay is based on the book “Dirty Secrets, Dirty War: The Exile of Robert J. Cox,” written by Cox’s son, David Cox.
Bó, who won an Academy Award and Golden Globe for co-writing the screenplay of “Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance),” will produce and direct the movie.
It will tell an inspiring story of exemplary courage in extraordinary and horrifying circumstance: How the Buenos Aires Herald, an English-language daily newspaper, became under Robert...
- 12/2/2021
- by John Hopewell
- Variety Film + TV
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