The preeminent wordsmith Sorkin, whose recent credits include Being The Ricardos, The Trial of the Chicago 7 and Broadway’s To Kill A Mockingbird, will script the story of Al Schwimmer, a post-WWII arms smuggler who helped create Israel’s air force, which helped the fledgling country survive.

Hollywood giants team up to make movie about Al Schwimmer, an American WWII veteran who helped to found the Air Force by smuggling war planes into Palestine in 1948 The post Warner Bros, Aaron Sorkin to tell story of ‘father’ of IAF appeared first on The Times of Israel.

Aaron Sorkin has signed a deal with Warner Bros. to write and potentially direct a film about the unlikely father of the Israeli Air Force, Al Schwimmer. The project is based, in part, on "America's Greatest Gift to Israel,