Randall Wallace to adapt ‘Killing Rommel’

Producer Jerry Bruckheimer and Walt Disney Pictures have acquired the rights to Steven Pressfield’s novel “Killing Rommel,” according to Variety.

The story of the book centers on the British Long Range Desert Group as it tries to stop German Field Marshal Erwin Rommel, who defeated the British in the North African desert during WWII.

Randall Wallace will write the adaptation with Pressfield, whose novel “The Legend of Bagger Vance” also made it to the big screen in 2000.

Wallace’s writing credits include “Braveheart,” “Pearl Harbor” and “We Were Soliders.” He also recently signed on to direct Disney’s “Secretariat,” a film about American racehorse owner Penny Chenery.