Angelina Jolie Pitt to direct Netflix drama ‘First They Killed My Father’

Angelina Jolie Pitt is the latest big name to team up with Netflix to make an original feature film.

The actress-turned-director will helm an adaptation of “First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers,” Loung Ung’s memoir about surviving the deadly Khmer Rouge regime, Netflix announced recently.

Published in 2000, “First They Killed My Father” recounts how Ung endured a fouryear reign of terror and genocide, during which she was torn from her family and trained as a child soldier. Jolie Pitt, who read the book and befriended Ung more a penchant for tackling weighty than a decade ago, worked with her to cowrite dramas as a filmmaker. the screenplay. Her first feature as a director, “In the

The film will hit the streaming service in Land of Blood and Honey,” was set against late 2016 and be submitted to major festivals. the backdrop of the Bosnian war, and her second, “Unbroken,” told the story of

In teaming up with Netflix, which has Olympian and World War II POW survivor been shoring up its filmmaking efforts Louis Zamperini. of late, Jolie Pitt joins husband Brad Pitt Jolie Pitt is currently in post-production (“War Machine”), Cary Fukunaga (“Beasts on her third directorial of No Nation”) and Judd Apatow (“Peewee’s effort, “By the Sea,” and will Big Holiday”), among others. begin production on “First

Jolie Pitt has a personal connection to They Killed My Father” Cambodia — it’s the homeland of her son this year. Maddox, who will be involved in the production of the film— and she has demonstrated