Colin Firth boards The Second World War drama The Railway Guy

Colin Firth will star in The Second World War drama The Railway Guy, that's presently available to customers within the Toronto Film Festival.In line with the Hollywood Reporter, the film "is founded on former British military officer Eric Lomax's best-selling account of his torture with the Japanese throughout the building of the "dying railway" throughout World War Ii and also the mission decades later to locate revenge on his tormentor."Jonathan Teplitzky will direct, with shooting prone to begin in September. The expansion will film on location inside the Uk, Thailand and Australia.Teplitzky's Burning Guy, starring Matthew Goode, was proven in Toronto yesterday.Firth has recently wrapped shooting the Coen brothers and sisters-scripted Gambit remake.He'll next be viewed in Mess Tailor Soldier Spy, which opens on 16 September 2011.