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Handmade preps Stirling biopic


January 30, 2007 Writer Rupert Walters has been given a mission -- to pen a screenplay on the wartime activities of soldier and Special Air Services founder David Stirling, production company HandMade Films said Monday. The Authorized Biography by Alan Hoe, which gives a detailed account of the history of the SAS -- an elite fighting force -- during the North African campaign in the early 1940s. Added HandMade Films managing director Antony Rufus Isaacs: This is an epic and incredibly exciting project that HandMade Films is embarking on.

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