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LOS ANGELES - The rise of Mao Zedong and communism in China is to be brought to the big screen by actor-director Robert De Niro, entertainment press reported on Monday.
The Oscar-winning star of "Taxi Driver" and "Raging Bull" has secured the rights to "Chasing the Dragon: A Veteran Journalist's Firsthand Account of the 1949 Chinese Revolution" written by reporter Roy Rowan, Variety reported.
Rowan, a former Shanghai-based correspondent for Time and Life who was one of the few western journalists reporting from inside China at the time of Mao's rise to power, will act as a consultant on the film, the report added. -AFP/rose
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