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The latest entry in Hollywood’s environmental sweepstakes: “The Day of Two Suns,” an adventure film based on the life of Greenpeace co-founder and chairman David McTaggart. Seattle-based producer Rick Stevenson (“Some Girls”), who is raising hometown financing to make the feature, says that McTaggart “is almost like a true-life Indiana Jones character.”
Rupert Walters’ script chronicles McTaggart’s transformation from right-wing tycoon to eco-activist. The film would re-create a series of confrontations between his Rainbow Warrior trawler and the French navy, including one--featuring an earlier Greenpeace boat--that caused the French government to stop atmospheric nuclear testing in 1975. McTaggart has script input, but not approval, Stevenson says.
Carolco Pictures has rights to another Rainbow Warrior project, “Warriors of the Rainbow,” based on a book by Robert Hunter, a Greenpeace co-founder. Stevenson, who’s partnered with executive producer Danny Wilson, says he’s not concerned about competition.
“We support any project about the environment,” he says. “It’s too important an issue to get territorial about.”
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