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Richard Gere arrives in Bosnia to hunt Karadzic in new movie
2006-09-09
US actor Richard Gere arrived in Bosnia to begin shooting a Hollywood thriller about the hunt for Radovan Karadzic, the former Bosnian Serb leader and war crimes fugutive. Gere will play a journalist trying to seek out Karadzic, who is wanted on war crimes charges. The Hollywood heartthrob told reporters at Sarajevo airport that he had accepted the role in Richard Shepard's "Flak Jacket" because it was "a very good script." Filming is due to start on Tuesday and Gere is expected to work here for ten days. Terrence Howard and Jesse Eusenberg will also star in the movie. The production company, Scout film, has not revealed who -- if anyone -- will play Karadzic, who has been on the run since he was charged with genocide in 1995 by the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia. The former Bosnian Serb leader is accused of ordering the 1995 massacre of 8,000 Muslim men in Srebrenica during Bosnia's 1992-95 war, in the worst single atrocity committed in Europe since World War II. He and his associate general Ratko Mladic are believed to be hiding somewhere in either Serbia or the Serb-controlled part of Bosnia. More than 11 years on, both men remain at large and are believed to be hiding in Serbia and Serb-controlled parts of Bosnia. All NATO operations to nab them ended in an embarrassing failure, as the two managed to escape Shepard's film is based on an article written by Scott Anderson, who reported on the war for Esquire magazine. Asked whether he will manage to catch Karadzic after everybody else failed, Gere laughed, adding "You will have to see the movie."
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