Harrison To Be Yet Another Hero

Posted Monday, March 11, 2002 at 9:26 AM Central

by Heather Koehler

It is only fitting for real-life hero Harrison Ford to be the first choice to portray another real-life humanitarian, the life and tragic death of Fred Cuny.

Indiana Jones won't be searching for legends in this movie because he'll be playing one. Cuny worked diligently his entire life towards better relief efforts for small countires like Biafra, Guatemala and Bosnia after attacks and disasters. He even died doing his work, as it is believed Cuny was executed when he was last seen with two Russian doctors and an interpreter. He was trying to negogiate a Russian-Chechnyan cease-fire.

It wasn't producers or directors who put all the efforts into getting this story developed into a movie, but Harrison Ford himself.