Gal Gadot set to star as Holocaust survivor seeking revenge
In ‘Ruin,’ Israeli actress to play woman who teams up with a Nazi soldier to exact revenge on members of his former SS squad in post-WWII Germany
Israeli actress Gal Gadot is set to produce and star in “Ruin,” a thriller movie set in post-Holocaust Germany, US media reported Friday.
Gadot will play a concentration camp survivor who teams up with a Nazi soldier (Matthias Schoenaerts) seeking atonement for his crimes by tracking down and exacting revenge on the surviving members of his former SS Death Squad, Variety reports.
Niki Caro is directing “Ruin,” which was written by cousins Kaz Firpo and Ryan Firpo of the film “Eternals.” This is Caro’s second Holocaust-related project, following “The Zookeeper,” a 2017 movie about Poles who sheltered hundreds of Jews and saved them from the Nazis.
Gadot will produce “Ruin” along with her husband Jaron Varsano, Marc Butan of MadRiver Pictures, and Caro.
The “Wonder Woman” star has battled many on-screen villains, including the German army of World War I, but this is the first time she will face off against Nazis in an action movie.
In 2018, it was announced that Margot Robbie would play the female lead in the movie, also alongside Schoenaerts, but that iteration apparently did not get off the ground.
Gadot has spoken frequently about her grandfather, a Holocaust survivor, and used her platform as a celebrity to draw attention to the fight against antisemitism and the plight of hostages held in Gaza.
The actress has become the target of pro-Palestinian, anti-Israel protests and was reportedly removed from the set of her upcoming film “The Runner” in north London this week after protesters disrupted filming.
It was announced in 2019 that Gadot would produce and star in a movie about Polish nurse and social worker Irena Sendler, who smuggled thousands of Jewish children out of the Warsaw Ghetto, but there have been no further reports on whether that movie went into production.
In March, Gadot became the first Israeli star to be honored with a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.
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