LONDON -- British Production Company Firefly Films, headed by Matthew Hobbs, is prepping early drafts for a movie based around the Beslan tragedy in Russia that saw a school in the Russian village taken siege for three days in 2004. The standoff resulted in the deaths of more than 350 people, over half of them children. Hobbs and Firefly associate producer Alexander Faleev, a Russian national, have commissioned screenwriter Richard Lasser, a one-time Russian interpreter in the former Soviet Union, to pen the initial draft of Beslan. The movie will focus on the stories of the families and teachers whose lives were torn apart, and also will delve into the lives of the hostagetakers, reconstructing the back story of the only surviving hostagetaker, Nurpashi Kulayev, producers said. A Russian court sentenced the 25-year-old Chechen to life in prison late last month.
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