The Green Prince is an award-winning Israeli documentary that will now be getting the feature film treatment.
Variety reported that the film has already won the Sundance Audience Award and will now be turned into a feature film from Electric City Entertainment. Richard Harding and Sam Feuer will also be working on the production of the upcoming movie.
The Green Prince tells the true story of a Hamas operative that is forced to become an Israeli spy. The documentary told the story of Mosab Hassan Yousef, who lived out this drama for ten years.
The documentary was directed by Nadav Schirman, HAARETZ added. For the feature film Schirman, John Battsek of Passion Pictures and Simon Chinn of Red Box Film will be reprising their roles as producers.
Music Box Films bought U.S. rights to the documentary back in March and the current plan is to open the feature film later this year.