(Deadline) Basil Iwanyk's Thunder Road has acquired screen rights to the Steven Pressfield hybrid history The Lion's Gate: On The Front Lines Of The Six Day War. The producer will use the book as a template to tell the story of how Israel, faced with extinction as Jordan, Syria and Egypt prepared to attack, routed the enemy in less than a week in 1967 with a brilliant battle plan. By the time the smoke cleared, Israel had gained hold of three times as much land as it started with, taking over the West Bank, Gaza Strip, Sinai Peninsula, and Judaism's holiest site, the Western Wall that was part of the ruins of Solomon's Temple, real estate that hadn't been in Jewish hands for 1900 years.
Israel Six Day War victory gets film deal
Jews routed enemy in less than a week in 1967 with brilliant battle plan
By WND News Services
Published October 10, 2014 at 11:22pm
