Cinema Science

Amy Ryan (Gone Baby Gone, HBO's The Wire) will star alongside Greg Kinnear and Matt Damon in a Paul Greengrass-directed untitled Iraq War thriller for Universal Pictures. Based on Rajiv Chandrasekaran's nonfiction book Imperial Life in the Emerald City: Inside Iraq's Green Zone, Greengrass and Brian Helgeland have developed a fictional thriller set in the fortified Iraqi ''Green Zone,'' where U.S. troops stay during the Iraq occupation. Ryan will play a New York Times foreign correspondent sent to Iraq to investigate the U.S. government's claims of the existence of weapons of mass destruction. Damon plays an officer who teams with a senior CIA officer to search for WMD, and Kinnear plays another CIA officer. Ryan next stars in the Clint Eastwood-directed Universal feature The Changeling.