IONCINEMA.com presents: Arms and the Man (0)

CAST AND CREW

Director

Michael Mann

Arms and the Man

Release Date: Unspecified Release - Wide Release
Distributor: Universal Pictures
Film Genre: Crime
Country: United States

Based on a Peter Landesman-penned New York Times Magazine feature about shadowy arms dealer Victor Bout. The Aug. 17 article was an account of Landesman's interview with Bout, who is widely reported to be the world's largest arms trafficker. The great achievement of the interview that took place in Moscow was the sleuthing that made it happen. Bout has been incredibly secretive and spent most of the article deflecting assertions about how prolific a mover of weapons he is. The film will be a "Heart of Darkness" hunt into the depths of global arms trafficking. An American agent pursues a missing orb of plutonium that was swiped during a raid in the Ukraine. The trail spans from the Middle East to Africa and the Soviet Union, and Landesman and Mann will introduce a love story element as the agent navigates between the old Soviet world and a new brand of lawlessness and arms brokering in the country.

TRIVIA

Mann's next feature is Collateral for Dreamworks.

MOVIE NEWS ITEMS

2003-10-28
Variety reports that Universal Pictures and Michael Mann's Forward Pass has optioned the article.