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MGM comes to the ‘Rescue Dawn’

Let the games begin! The first high profile film without a distributor to find a taker at this year’s TiFF is the Christian Bale and Steve Zahn-starrer Vietnam War drama. MGM picked up the North American rights to the project and will release the film theatrically this coming December.

Eric Lavallée

Published on September 10, 2006

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Werner Herzog’s Rescue Dawn is based on the German auteur’s acclaimed 1977 documentary Little Dieter Needs to Fly. This tells the real-life story of U.S. fighter pilot Dieter Dengler, a German-American shot down and captured in Laos during the Vietnam War. Dengler, to be played by Bale, organized a death-defying escape for a small band of POWs, including Duane Martin (Zahn).

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Eric Lavallée

Eric Lavallée is the founder, CEO, editor-in-chief, film journalist and critic at IONCINEMA.com (founded in 2000). Eric is a regular at Sundance, Cannes and TIFF. He has a BFA in Film Studies at the Mel Hoppenheim School of Cinema. In 2013 he served as a Narrative Competition Jury Member at the SXSW Film Festival. He was an associate producer on Mark Jackson's This Teacher (2018 LA Film Festival, 2018 BFI London). In 2022 he served as a New Flesh Comp for Best First Feature at the 2022 Fantasia Intl. Film Festival. Current top films for 2022 include Tár (Todd Field), All That Breathes (Shaunak Sen), Aftersun (Charlotte Wells).