'Amelia' in Production

Richard Gere and Hilary Swank are set to be together in Avalon Pictures' biopic on Amelia Earhart, the legendary American pilot who disappeared while flying over the Pacific Ocean in 1937 in an attempt to make a flight around the world.

The film named 'Amelia' revolves around the rocky relationship between the famed aviator and her husband, publisher George Putnam. Mira Nair ('Namesake', 'Mississipi Masala') is directing the film. Ronald Bass, the Oscar winning screen writer ('Rainman', 'Sleeping with the Enemy') has penned the screenplay and production is slated to begin this month in Toronto, Nova Scotia and South Africa.

Kevin Hyman, Ted Waitt and Lydia Dean Pilcher are producing while Swank and Bass are executive producing.