Phillip Noyce is to direct the adaptation of Peter Duffys bestseller
The Bielski Brothers, according to Variety.
Story concerns three Jewish brothers who heroically hid 1,250 Jews from the Nazis in a forest outside Belarus during WWII.
Project is based on a bestseller by Peter Duffy, who confirmed what was thought to be merely legend by tracking down the two surviving brothers who spearheaded the largest armed rescue of Jews by Jews during WWII.
"We both felt that it was an incredible adventure story and not a Holocaust tale," producer Mace Neufeld said. "They built a real village and a guerrilla group that saved a lot of lives. It is one of the great unknown stories of the war."