"Jackie" helmer Pablo Larrain is set to direct "The True American" starring Tom Hardy in the lead role.
The film is an adaptation of Anand Giridharadas' 2014 non-fiction book "The True American: Murder and Mercy in Texas," according to The Hollywood Reporter.
The story centers on Rais Bhuiyan, a Muslim immigrant and Bangladesh Air Force veteran is shot just days after the September 11 attacks. Yet he works to have his attacker spared from execution.
Megan Ellison, Kathryn Bigelow, Matthew Budman and Juan de Dios Larrain are producing.
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