Peyman Moaadi, who starred in the Oscar-winning foreign film "A
Separation," is set to star opposite Kristen Stewart in writer-director
Peter Sattler's politically-charged indie drama "Camp X-Ray," TheWrap
has learned.
Stewart stars as Cole, a young soldier who escapes
her suffocating small town by joining the military, only to find that
she's been stationed at Guantanamo rather than Iraq, as she had hoped.
Met with hatred and abuse from the Muslim men in charge, she forges an
odd friendship with Ali (Moaadi), who has been imprisoned at Gitmo for
eight years.
"Army Wives" star Joseph Julian Soria will co-star as one of Stewart's closest friends on the base.
Gina
Kwon and Sophia Lin are producing, which David Gordon Green is
executive producing with Lindsay Williams and Ellen Goldsmith-Vein.
Production will begin later this summer in Los Angeles.
Moaadi is
an accomplished screenwriter who has penned several famous Iranian
films and recently made his directorial debut with the award-winning
drama "The Snow on the Pines." He started his acting career in Asghar
Farhadi's 2009 film "About Elly" before reuniting with the director on
"A Separation."
Moaadi will soon be seen alongside Morgan
Freeman in "The Last Knights" and he also worked with James Gandolfini
on the HBO pilot "Criminal Justice," which is now in limbo following
Gandolfini's death. He's repped by Shelley Browning of Magnolia
Entertainment.
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