Electric City Entertainment partners Jamie Patricof and Lynette Howell are developing a feature film based on the award-winning Sundance documentary “The Green Prince,” TheWrap has learned.
Electric City is partnering with Richard Harding and Sam Feuer, who optioned the rights to Mosab Hassan Yousef’s novel “Son of Hamas,” which served as the underlying material for the documentary.
John Battsek and Simon Chinn will executive produce along with Nadav Schirman, who directed the acclaimed Israeli documentary.
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“The Green Prince” tells the extraordinary true story of an Israeli Intelligence agent who must recruit the son of a founding Hamas leader to spy on his family and friends in an effort to end the bloodshed.