Mamoudou Athie, star of breakout feature film Patti Cake$, is to star in and produce a feature film set in the Sahara Desert.Athie, who is also set to star in Jurassic Park: Dominion, has teamed up with Vespucci Group to develop Chigali, a project based in Mauritania, the North African country where he is from.
It is based on an audio story, produced by Vespucci, and written by journalist Sahar Zand.The story follows Sidi, whose first memories including camels, sand storms, scorpions, and sand dunes towering like buildings.
Raised in a nomadic tribe on the far edge of the Sahara desert, Sidi doesn’t have a father like the other kids. He dreams of meeting him, even after his mom explains he’s gone away to heaven, a journey from which he
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