Hugh Jackaman to Star in THE ABSOLUTELY TRUE DIARY OF A PART-TIME INDIAN

According to The Hollywood Reporter, actor Hugh Jackman has signed on for the big screen adaptation of THE ABSOLUTELY TRUE DIARY OF A PART-TIME INDIAN from 20th Century Fox.

The project is based on the young adult semi autobiographical best seller by author and Smoke Signals screenwriter Sherman Alexie. Alexie will pen the screenplay

The story follows an aspiring teenage cartoonist who leaves his Native American Reservation school in Spokane to attend an all-white high school.

Jackman will soon be seen on the big screen in his final appearance as Wolverine this March. He is currently filming the musical The Greatest Showman opposite Zac Efron and Rebecca Ferguson.

Jackman is an Academy Award®-nominated, Golden Globe® and Tony Award®-winning actor. The Australian native was most recently on Broadway in his one-man show Hugh Jackman - Back on Broadway in the fall of 2011. Jackman's dedication to the Broadway community was feted at the 2012 Tony Awards, where he received a Special Award from the TONY AWARDS Administration Committee, recognizing his accomplishments as a performer and humanitarian. He previously starred on Broadway in Keith Huff's play, A Steady Rain, opposite Daniel Craig, and as 1970s singer-songwriter Peter Allen in The Boy From Oz, for which he received the 2004 Tony Award for Best Actor in a Musical as well as Drama Desk, Drama League, Outer Critics Circle and Theatre World Awards.

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