Marshall Manesh, an American actor of Iranian origin, will most likely play Polish President Lech Kaczynski in a Hollywood film about the Russian-Georgian war.
The film, yet untitled, is directed by Renny Harlin, who also made Die Hard 2, and the main role of Georgia’s President Mikheil Saakashvili, is to be played by Andy Garcia, known from The Godfather: Part III and Ocean’s Eleven.
Polish President Lech Kaczynski will probably be played by Marshall Manesh, American actor born in Iran, who played in The Big Lebowski and Pirates of the Caribbean: At World’s End. However, according to an opinion poll conducted by gazeta.pl, a Polish news portal, Poles think that Danny DeVito would be more suitable for the role, if not for personal resemblance, than certainly for his height.
Poland’s President is set to appear in a scene of a mass gathering in front of the Georgian parliament house in Tbilisi that took place in August 2008, in which heads of several Eastern European countries took part.
Shooting of the film, which tells a story of an American journalist who is plunged into the maelstrom of Russian-Georgian war, has already started. The cost of the film is estimated at 20 million USD. (mg/mmj)