Harry Potter actor Daniel Radcliffe has signed to star in new war movie 'Journey', in which he will portray tragic photographer Dan Eldon, who was stoned to death during the devastating civil war in Somalia, East Africa, in 1993. According to reports, the 18-year-old actor - best known for playing the boy wizard in the Potter films, fought off stiff competition from likes of Heath Ledger, Joaquin Phoenix, Ryan Phillippe and Orlando Bloom to land the role, after Eldon's family decided he would be a perfect fit for the part.
The late photographer's mother Kathy revealed: "We resisted a lot of older actors because Dan was a boy emerging into manhood. The timing is right and the person is right and I couldn't ask for more.
"He has portrayed a magician for years and my Dan was a different kind of magician. There are parallels in the two Dans' lives.
"Daniel Radcliffe is a poet, he keeps journals and he is half Jewish. He has a sense of humor and energy inside him which reminds me of Dan."
Eldon was just 22 when he was killed in the Somalian capital of Mogadishu.
The film is based on his diaries 'The Journey is the Destination', which were published in 1997.
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