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The production company of actress Charlize Theron has bought the film rights to Florence of Arabia, a novel by Christopher Buckley. Theron will produce the movie through her Denver and Delilah Films company and might also headline the movie too.

Buckley's satirical book was first published in 2004 and is about Florence Farfaletti, a Foreign Service worker living in the fictional Middle Eastern Royal Kingdom of Wasabia. The country is a darling of the western world due to its oil production but if you're a woman living there, forget about having the same rights as a man. When Florence witnesses another example of the brutal repression of women's rights in Wasabia she decides to make it her mission to cultivate a non-violent resistance movement to lift up women and give them the same rights as men enjoy. Of course Florence's crusade attracts the condemnation of Wasabia's rulers as well as the men that enjoy being in power, but it also gains an unexpected ally in the form of a CIA officer who funds the movement, hoping that the social unrest will create new opportunities for western powers.

The screenplay for the film will be written by Dean Craig (Dirty Little Secrets, Death at a Funeral). The project isn't set up at a studio just yet.