Angelina Jolie's first 'Unbroken' image
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- Published on Wednesday, 30 November -0001 00:00
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Angelina Jolie releases her first image from the film "Unbroken." It's of the director and her subject.Angelina Jolie has released the first picture from her directorial effort Unbroken.It's a photo of the director with the inspiration of the story, Louis "Louie" Zamperini. The famed Olympic long-distance runner survived brutal conditions as a Japanese prisoner of war during World War II.Jolie and and Zamperini are actually neighbors in the Hollywood Hills and have become close friends over the film's development.Zamperini even gave Jolie a golden running shoe pendant, a prize from one of his earliest race. Jolie will wear it every day as she helms the film in Australia.In a release with the photo, Jolie said of her subject: "It will be hard to make a film worthy of this great man. I am deeply honored to have the chance and will do all I can to bring Louie's inspiring story to life... He has made me a better person." Zamperini referred to Jolie as "a human dynamo." "I know she will tell this story in the right way," he added. Zamperini's story was made into a best-selling book by author Laura Hillenbrand.Jack O'Connell will appear as Louis Zamperini in the film arriving in theaters Christmas Day, 2014.
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