Rosamund Pike is already aboard to play famed war reporter Marie Colvin and now we know who will be joining her in a film about the intrepid journalist, A Private War . Kingsman's Taron Egerton is the chosen co-star. Arash Amel has written the script, which adapts Marie Brenner's 2012 Vanity Fair article Marie Colvin's Private War. It'll chronicle the work of Colvin, who filed reports from conflict zones including Chechnya, Kosovo, Sierra Leone, Zimbabwe and Sri Lanka, where she lost her left eye in 2001. She became known for her distinctive patch, and kept working, dying during a rocket attack in 2012 while covering the civil war in Syria. As for Egerton, details are sparse on his character, but we do know he's a fellow journalist, one with a military background, who follows her into various war zones. Matthew Heineman, who last made the Oscar-nominated documentary Cartel Land, is in the director's chair, and the film should kick off shooting in Novemb
