Bali bombings to become a film

The Bali bombings are to be made into a film, it was announced today.

The blasts on the tourist island last year left 202 people dead.

Now a British production company is to turn the atrocity into the subject of the film, Bali – The Bombing Of Paradise.

It will be shot on location in Bali, England and Australia, home to 88 of the dead and where many of the blast victims were flown for treatment.

The film is being written by John Goldsmith, whose previous credits include the BBC period drama Victoria And Albert and the Anjelica Huston film Agnes Browne.

It will revolve around three main characters who survive the bombings and help with the rescue operation.

A spokeswoman for production company New Concept Development Limited said the victims portrayed in the movie would be fictionalised.

Filming begins next April and the movie should reach cinemas the following year.

Two blasts ripped through the holiday resort of Kuta on the Indonesian island last October.

One hit Paddy’s Bar while the second exploded in a van outside the nearby Sari nightclub.

Amrozi bin Nurhasyim, one of the key players who helped plan and carry out the attacks, was sentenced to death last month.

A further three dozen suspects are awaiting trial in connection with the atrocities.