Italian director Giuseppe Tornatore is planning to make his first English-language movie about Daw Aung San Suu Kyi. Tornatore is developing the script for "The Lady" with Japanese producer Naofumi Okamoto, with production to begin later this year. Okamoto is producing the $30 million project alongside Avi Arad and Steven Paul and Benedict Carver of L.A.-based Crystal Sky Pictures. Crystal Sky is financing the pic. Okamoto is one of only a handful of foreigners to have met with Daw Su Kyisince her arrest 17 years ago by Burma's military junta. He overcame her initial reluctance and secured her permission to develop a movie based on her life. Okamoto said, "We want to use the politics as the background to a story about a woman who chose to be the mother to a nation rather than the mother of a family.Producer Avi Arad of L.A.-based Crystal Sky Pictures said that Suu Kyi was like a character from 'X-Men,' except she's a real hero, not an imaginary one -- she didn't need to do what she did, and she gave up a lot to do it."
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