Niki Caro to direct Lockerbie bombing film
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Save Niki Caro has previously directed movies including 'Whale Rider' and 'North Country'.
New Zealand filmmaker Niki Caro is to direct a film about the 1988 Pan Am Flight 103 terrorist bombing over the Scottish town of Lockerbie .
The film will be based on the book The Boy Who Fell Out of the Sky, by Ken Dornstein, whose brother David
was one of the 269 who died in the bombing.
Caro has previously directed movies including Whale Rider and North Country.
"I'm pretty compelled by material that's real and human," she said in the Hollywood Reporter.
"It looks at the emotional consequences of terrorism, but not in a political way."
- NZPA
