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All-star cast for Iraq thriller

Wed 14 Mar 11:30 AM

Colin Farrell, Charlize Theron, Ralph Fiennes and Willem Dafoe have signed up to a war thriller set in Iraq.

The Hurt Locker will be helmed by one of Hollywood's best-known female directors, Kathryn Bigelow, and is her first since 2002 flop drama K-19: The Widowmaker.

The A-list cast play members of an elite bomb disposal unit who, according to the synopsis, are "forced to play a dangerous game of cat and mouse in the chaos of war" in a city [Baghdad] where "everyone is a potential enemy and every object could be a deadly bomb".

The script was written by Crash director Paul Haggis and Mark Boal, co-writer of the recent Iraq drama In The Valley Of Elah, in which Theron (pic) also starred. The Hurt Locker will also reunite Farrell and Fiennes, as the handsome duo are currently filming comedy drama Euro-Hitmen in Bruges, Belgium.