HBO and producer Jerry Weintraub are teaming up to make a movie about last year’s Benghazi terrorist attack.
The cable network has optioned the rights to the just released “Under Fire: The Untold Story of the Attack in Benghazi,” a book about the attack by Fred Burton and Samuel M. Katz, according to The Hollywood Reporter.
The book, published earlier this month, is a detailed account of the attempt to fight off and escape a terrorist strike on a diplomatic mission in Benghazi, Libya on September 11, 2012. During the attack Ambassador J. Christopher Stevens and three others were killed.
Weintraub said that HBO, who he worked with on the Emmy-nominee “Behind the Candelabra,” was the right company to work with on the project.
“It is the only place I can imagine this tragic and emotionally gripping story being told,” he told a reporter from the paper.
HBO acquired the rights to “Under Fire” days after another Benghazi book, “The Embassy House,” was optioned as the basis for a film.