Sealand News

Sorensen’s modern-day ‘Braveheart’ finds a home

Warner Bros. Pictures has picked up scribe Sean Sorensen’s pitch “Sealand” for WB-based Industry Entertainment to produce.

A-list actors Mel Gibson and Russell Crowe are already being touted as potential stars to play the parts of Roy, and his son Michael, who is the current Prince of Sealand, the smallest country in the world. Film-makers will have no shortage of action to choose from as the Bates family have dealt with everything from a hostage ordeal and legal battles with the British Government to allegations of collusion with Colombian drug barons, the Russian Mafia and internet terrorists .

The script will be penned by American writer Sean Sorensen, who optioned the life rights to the Bates family with money he won on a television gameshow.

Read more here: Variety