Liam Neeson, Orlando Bloom Welcomed to Sarajevo

Liam Neeson and Orlando Bloom have both joined a film adaptation of Bill Carter’s book Fools Rush In, about his time as an aid worker in Sarajevo during the bloody Balkans siege that lasted 43 days. Andrucha Waddington (Me You Them) will direct, and Javier Bardem may hop aboard in a supporting role. Bloom says it will be a big departure from Hollywood studio films, which is good, because outside of giant fantasy franchises, big studio movies haven’t really figured out how to use Bloom.

Watch a trailer for Waddington’s previous work, Me You Them, a comedy about a Brazilian woman living with three husbands.
Watch the trailer for the completely unrelated Matthew Perry/Salma Hayek comedy Fools Rush In.