Weisz for political drama 'Whistleblower'

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Rachel Weisz has signed up to star in political drama The Whistleblower.

The movie will centre on a Nebraska police officer who serves as a peacekeeper in post-war Bosnia and later exposes a sex trafficking scandal covered up by the United Nations.

Larysa Kondracki and Ellis Kirwin based the script on the story of Kathryn Bolkovac, a U.N. peacekeeper who went to Bosnia in 1999. Kondracki is making her directorial debut on the project, reports Variety.

Weisz's upcoming roles include con caper The Brothers Bloom, Peter Jackson's The Lovely Bones and historical drama Agora.