Blackwater Movie Updates

Wed., Jun. 11, 2014

from Deadline

Warner Bros has tapped Australian actor/filmmaker Kieran Darcy-Smith to direct Blackwater, a fact-based story that is being scripted by Gideon Yago.

• added a synopsis

• Blackwater is the true story of the rise of Erik Prince’s privatized military company Blackwater Worldwide, which became a controversial yet key player in the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. Four former guards from the security firm are facing trial ... show all in the killings of 14 Iraqi civilians and the wounding of 18 others in bloodshed in Baghdad that inflamed anti-American sentiment around the globe in 2007. The contractors were working for the State Department and Blackwater claimed the deadly force was necessary.

• added Warner Bros. Pictures as a distributor
• added Jon Peters as producer to credits
• added Kieran Darcy-Smith as director to credits
• created the movie profile