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Egyptian director Amr Salama is blend in onwards with design to produceIraqi Sniper , a movie that calculate at theAmerican Sniperstory from the Iraki point - of - view . Salama ’s current filmSheikh Jackson , a dramatic play about a ecclesiastic who suffers a crisis of faith when he instruct about the death of Michael Jackson , is lead to next month ’s Toronto International Film Festival .
Clint Eastwood ’s 2014 filmAmerican Snipertold the storyof Navy sealskin sniper Chris Kyle ( Bradley Cooper ) , who became a hero for extort up an staggering phone number of kills while assist in Iraq , but struggled to re - adjust to substantial animation after returning home to his family . Eastwood ’s film grossedan vex $ 350 million domestically and go on to be nominated for 6 Oscars including Best Picture , butreceived criticismfor being blatantly pro - war , and for fail to limn the Iraki point - of - view . The flick includes a eccentric named Mustafa , a mysterious sniper on the Iraqi side played by Egyptian actor Sammy Sheik , who terrorizes American soldiers before ultimately being bolt down by Kyle .
Director Amr Salama says he is now producing his answer to Clint Eastwood ’s pin - wavingAmerican Sniper , which is going under the working titleIraqi Sniper , with Sammy Sheik himself attached . Salama spoke about the anger that inspired him to develop his own film with the Iraqi sniper at the center ( viaTHR ):
“ He ’s the hero in my moving picture . I hated it . That was my inhalation — I hated it so much that I wanted to make for on a different version of that narrative . But I ’m trying to make an anti - war cinema . WhereasAmerican Sniperwas pro - war . ”
The fundamental lineament ofIraqi Sniperis based on a genuine - life man appoint Juba who became an almost mythical figure thanks to picture of his putting to death , with hearsay circulating that he was formerly an Olympic athlete . The film is presently in the hand stage with Egyptian manufacturer Mohamed Hefzy and Palestinian director Hany Abu - Assad ( The Mountain Between Us ) producing .
In Clint Eastwood’sAmerican Sniper , Mustafa but bring home the bacon an resister for Chris Kyle to heroically out - duel , but there was a point in the photographic film ’s early development when Steven Spielbergwas still involvedwhere Mustafa was flesh - out as a grapheme and came to put up more of a legitimate comeback - head to Kyle . Spielberg finally cast off out however , and the version of the movie made by Eastwood come down Mustafa ’s function . It was this decrease of Mustafa to mere antagonist that so enraged Amr Salama and inspire him to re - shoot the breeze the character in hopes of shew him not as a mere foil in a story of American valor but as a hero in his own right .
It will be interesting to see how Salama ’s version of the write up treats the character of Chris Kyle , if he chooses to admit a version of the American Sniper at all . Producer Mohamed Hefzy says he believesIraqi Sniperwill have " external entreaty , " as didAmerican Sniper .
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