Nicole Kidman will play Colin Firth's wife in The Railway Man , as Rachel Weisz has had to drop the role due to scheduling conflicts with The Bourne Legacy and Oz The Great and Powerful .
To be directed by Jonathan Teplitzky, the drama is based on the best-selling autobiography by Eric Lomax which is described as follows:
Throughout his childhood Eric Lomax possessed a passion for trains. In an ironic twist of fate, he was captured by the Japanese during World War II and sent to Thailand to work on the infamous Burma-Siam railroad, the barbaric project that claimed the lives of 250,000 men. There he constructed a radio to bring news of the war and secretly drew a map of the railroad. For this, Lomax suffered brutal and incessant torture and interrogation. Standing by...
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