Elizabeth Alton Set To Play War Reporter Marie ColvinElizabeth Alton has been set to portray Marie Colvin in the untitled film about the American reporter who worked in conflict zones including Chechnya, Kosovo, Sierra Leone, Zimbabwe and Sri Lanka, where she lost her left eye in 2001. Colvin, who wore a distinctive eye patch after that, died in early 2012 during a rocket attack covering the civil war in Syria for the U.K.'s Sunday Times.
Production begins in October in the U.K. and Middle East. Arash Amel wrote the script, based on "Marie Colvin's Private War," a Marie Brenner article in the August 2012 Vanity Fair. Matthew Heineman is directing.