Aniston gets new vehicle

Jennifer Aniston is being lined up to play the role of war photographer Dickey Chapelle in her next film.

14:52 15 June 2004

Jennifer Aniston is being lined up to play the role of war photographer Dickey Chapelle in her next film.

Warner Bros and Plan B production companies are developing a script as a star vehicle for the former "Friends" actress, according to industry magazine Variety.

Margaret Nagle, who is currently working on the adaptation of "The Lost Boys of the Sudan", looks set to pen the new film. Brad Grey, Brad Pitt and Aniston - who work for Plan B - will produce the feature.

Chapelle was a blonde, blue-eyed beauty who reported on the Second World War for "Look" magazine and "Reader's Digest". Her willingness to get pictures from the front line made her famous. Chapelle was killed in Vietnam when she set off a land mine while with Marines on a sabotage mission.

"She took the only pictures on the front lines of Iwo Jima, which were confiscated and destroyed by the State Department," Nagle said.

"In a time when reporters generally stayed behind the lines and were fed information to publish, this beautiful blonde who had a maths scholarship at MIT would jump out of helicopters and go right to the front lines with the Marines."

Aniston's latest project is a comedy based on a woman who discovers her family was the inspiration for "The Graduate" and she may be the offspring of that celebrated union.