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Fred Schepisi Sets Israeli Thriller ‘The Dimona Affair’ as Next Directorial Project (EXCLUSIVE)


Fred Schepisi is set to direct 'The Dimona Affair,' about Israel's rumored nuclear arms program.

After giving The Sunday Times of London a detailed interview about the program in the 1980s, causing an international scandal, “low level” Israeli nuclear technician Mordechai Vanunu fled the country. Schepisi, whose last feature project was “Words and Pictures” starring Clive Owen and Juliette Binochein 2013, is set to direct from a script penned by screenwriter and investigative journalist Morrie Rosmarin. The director is best known for 1993 pic “Six Degrees of Separation” featuring Will Smith, Stockard Channing and Donald Sutherland and for 2011’s “The Eye of the Storm” with Charlotte Rampling and Geoffrey Rush.

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