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Movie director, comedian and entertainer Afdlin Shauki might be working with a Hollywood director - and possibly X-Men star Hugh Jackman - on a movie about the Sandakan Death Marches in World War II.

 

The Sandakan Death Marches refer to the series of forced marches from Sandakan, Sabah, to Ranau during WWII conducted by Japanese occupying forces, which resulted in the deaths of more than 2,000 Allied prisoners of war, many of whom were Australian and British soldiers.

At the end of the war, only six Australian military men survived the ordeal. The Death Marches are widely regarded as the worst atrocity suffered by Australian servicemen in the country's history.

The movie project, currently under development by the National Film Development Corporation (Finas), would team Afdlin up with Hollywood director Roger Christian.

Christian won an Academy Award for his set design work for George Lucas's legendary Star Wars, and has been nominated for another Oscar for his art direction on Ridley Scott's Alien. On the flipside, Christian also directed the notoriously bad Battlefield Earth, John Travolta's film allegory on Scientology's religious beliefs.

Christian spent roughly three months in Sabah earlier this year, conducting interviews with local residents and researching for the movie.

Australian actor Hugh Jackman, who's become a household name for his portrayal of Marvel mutant superhero Wolverine in the X-Men movie franchise, has been offered a role in the movie.

The project currently has RM1 million in funding from a Federal Government grant, and another RM2 million pumped in by Finas itself. Finas chairman Datuk Affendi Hamdan told The Star Online that the balance of the project's budget would sourced from local funding.

Finas is targeting the 2016 Cannes Film Festival for the movie's premiere.