Rachel Weisz to star in 'Railway Man'

LONDON -- Rachel Weisz has devoted to star opposite Colin Firth in "The Railway Guy," a legendary tale of war time torture and forgiveness to become directed by Jonathan Teplitzky. The film, which shoots next Feb around australia, Thailand and also the U.K., is dependant on the best-selling autobiography by Scotsman Eric Lomax. This informs of his capture and torture through the Japanese in The Second World War, when he was delivered to focus on Burma's well known "dying railway," and the struggle for the following 3 decades to be prepared for the trauma. Firth plays the older Lomax, and Weisz will have his wife Patti, whose love set him with an remarkable span of reconciliation together with his former captors. Jeremy Irvine continues to be cast because the more youthful Lomax throughout the World war 2 moments. The script is as simple as Frank Cottrell Boyce and Andy Paterson. Paterson is creating with Chris Brown. The $20 million pic continues to be setup like a U.K./Australia co-production, with Lionsgate taking U.K. privileges and handling worldwide sales, and Tranmission pre-purchasing Australian privileges. Weisz made an appearance most lately in Terence Davies' "The Dark Blue Ocean" and Fernando Meirelles' "360" She won an Oscar in 2006 for "The Continual Garden enthusiast." Contact the range newsroom at news@variety.com