'Rangoon' director Vishal Bhardwaj is taking a break from Shakespeare and is planning to adapt 'The Exile: The Stunning Inside Story of Osama bin Laden and Al Qaeda in Flight' as his next directorial venture.
Titled Abbottabad, the project will be produced by Bhardwaj and Junglee Pictures.
The book, written by Catherine Scott-Clark and Adrian Levy, is an insider’s account of al-Qaida after 9/11. It is about the history of the terrorist network, from 2001 to the present and reveals a dark web of familial and political machinations.
The film is touted as a sequel to Katheryn Bigelow's award winning feature, 'Zero Dark Thirty'.
According to a TOI report, the film will be told from the perspective of Ibrahim, a guard who was protecting Laden when he was at the house in Abbottabad.
(with inputs from PTI)