'The X-Files' star Gillian Anderson is to play the lead role in a new biopic of the war correspondent Martha Gellhorn.
Variety reports that Anderson's production company, Fiddlehead Productions, has acquired the rights to the book 'Gellhorn: A Twentieth-Century Life'.
Writer Sharman Macdonald, the mother of Keira Knightley, will adapt the book for the screen.
Gellhorn covered conflicts from the Spanish Civil War to the Vietnam War and was at one stage married to Ernest Hemmingway.
Anderson can currently be seen on Irish cinema screens in 'The X-Files: I Want to Believe'.
