EXCLUSIVE: Kiri creator Jack Thorne, arguably Britain's most prolific film and TV writer, has already set up his next project – penning the story of Syrian swimmer Yusra Mardini for Working Title.
I hear that Thorne is writing the feature after Tim Bevan and Eric Fellner's firm picked up the rights to Mardini's life story earlier this year. Mardini is the teenage Olympian refugee who dragged a dinghy of refugees to safety across the Aegean Sea.
This comes as Thorne's…
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