The Ink Factory has optioned Billy Lynn’s Long Halftime Walk by Ben Fountain and has lined up Oscar winner Simon Beaufoy [pictured] to adapt the screenplay.

The feature is being developed with Film4.

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The book, shortlisted for the national book awards in the US (where it is published by HarperCollins’ Ecco) and the UK (Canongate), is about a 19-year-old Texas native and his fellow soldiers who become media heroes after a tour of duty in Iraq.

Producers will be Ink Factory’s Simon Cornwell, Stephen Cornwell and Rhodri Thomas.

The Ink Factory is currently in production on Anton Corbijn’s A Most Wanted Man.

Beaufoy’s credits include Slumdog Millionaire and The Full Monty.

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