NEWS - The Argentian press is reporting that Pierce Brosnan and Armand Assante will be co-starring in a new film "Ley Primera" [The Law]. It will be filmed in 2012 in Argentina and New York. The plot of the film is about the slaughter of indigenous people in Argentina in 1924, and the destruction of their forests. Link to press report is below (in Spanish, with English translation)
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Saturday February 18, 2012
PIERCE BROSNAN and Armand Assante ("Ley Primera" [First Law])
As reported by [newspaper] Diario Norte [Journal North], is in pre-production Argentina-US co-production "Ley Primera" [first law] based on the right of Aborigines to land and tree felling, and discrimination and the slaughter of Napalpí [tribe] occurred in 1924.
Shall be construed in its main roles by Pierce Brosnan, Armand Assante on the American side and by Norma Aleandro, Rodrigo de la Serna and Luis Luque for Argentina.
The filming time is: 2 weeks in Los Angeles and New York, 4 weeks in Buenos Aires and 2 weeks in Chaco.
It will be released in the U.S., Chaco and Buenos Aires respectively, and their distribution is worldwide.
Filming is scheduled initially for 2012.