Bruckheimer producing 'Rommel' movie

Los Angeles -- Disney and Hollywood producer Jerry Bruckheimer are working on a big-screen adaptation of Steven Pressfield's novel "Killing Rommel."

The studio and the producer have previously collaborated on the World War II action flick "Pearl Harbor," as well as the blockbuster "Pirates of the Caribbean" trilogy.

Variety.com said the two parties have secured the rights to Pressfield's book about a British battalion's attempt to crush German Field Marshal Erwin Rommel's desert campaign in the early 1940s.

Bruckheimer is producing the film, which will be co-written by Pressfield, and "Braveheart" and "Pearl Harbor" scribe Randall Wallace, the entertainment industry trade newspaper said.

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