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HARRY POTTER star Daniel Radcliffe has fought off Hollywood’s A-listers reportedly including Heath Ledger, Joaquin Phoenix, Ryan Phillippe and Orlando Bloom to land the lead role in a new movie about a slain photo-journalist.
The 18-year-old Radcliffe will appear as photographer Dan Eldon in Journey, a film chronicling the civil war in Somalia. Eldon who was then also 22, was one of four journalists stoned to death by a mob in the African country in 1993. And Eldon’s mother Kathy believes Radcliffe was the perfect choice to play her tragic son. She says, “We resisted a lot of older actors because Dan was a boy emerging into manhood.”

A compilation of Eldon’s 17 journals and thousands of pictures on which the film is based - has sold 200,000 copies since being published in 1997,and a legacy that has won admirers including Madonna and Julia Roberts.

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