Deadline reports that Bella Ramsey has signed on for the leading role in the upcoming biographical drama Girl Next Door, which will be inspired by a true story. Ramsey will be playing British terrorist Samantha Lewthwaite, who gained the nickname of the White Widow after being accused of killing more than 400 people. She is the widow of 19-year-old terrorist Germaine Lindsay, who was one of the four suicide bombers during the 7/7 London Underground bombing incident in 2005.
Girl Next Door will be written and directed by Bruce Goodison. “This film is about a young life-affirming idealist with a broken heart. Sam turns her grief into a strength that was then exploited by men for purposes of global terror. I just didn’t believe the hype – was Sam really the terrorist mastermind the press and anti-terror police would have us believe, or was there another truth? Her truth. I’ve written an unsettling mystery that asks how it might feel if the person you love and expect to share a life with goes out one day and commits an act of terror that challenges everything you hold dear. Sam goes on an odyssey that both consumes her and alters her. Little by little, she is isolated and radicalized, and it could be argued this was as a result of being rejected by us,” Goodison said in a statement.
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