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Film on Beslan crisis

Moscow: The film-makers behind "The Da Vinci Code" have acquired the rights to a magazine article about the Beslan hostage crisis in a bid to take Russia's worst terrorist disaster on to the big screen. Brian Grazer, the producer of "The Da Vinci Code", and Hollywood giant Universal Pictures have bought the right to convert an 18,000-word article about the hostage crisis published in the forthcoming edition of Esquire magazine into a script. The article, entitled The School, was written by Chris Chivers of the New York Times. Mr. Chivers covered the September 2004 siege during which 331 persons died when the three-day standoff in southern Russia ended in a gunfight.

- Guardian Newspapers Limited 2006

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