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Friday, January 04, 2008 1:33 AM EST
Radcliffe Lands Slain Photographer Role

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Daniel Radcliffe, who will next be seen in Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, fought off competition from Heath Ledger and Orlando Bloom to land the lead role in a new movie about a slain British photo-journalist.

Radcliffe will appear as photographer Dan Eldon in Journey, a film chronicling the civil war in Somalia. Eldon was one of four journalists stoned to death by a mob in the African country in 1993.

Eldon's mother Kathy believes Radcliffe was the perfect choice to play her tragic son. She says, "We resisted a lot of older actors because Dan was a boy emerging into manhood."

A compilation of Eldon's diaries—on which the film is based—has sold 200,000 copies since being published in 1997.

Filming is expected to begin later this year.

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