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With the option on The Bomb in My Garden: The Secrets of Saddam's Nuclear Mastermind, Johnny Depp is poised to make a very controversial film.

Johnny Depp has optioned the nonfiction book "The Bomb in My Garden," written by Iraq's top nuclear scientist Mahdi Obeidi and People magazine foreign correspondent Kurt Pitzer, to make into a film. "Bomb" is the story of how, after Saddam Hussein's capture, Obeidi tried to turn himself and his secrets over to the U.S., only to find the CIA and other government agencies didn't believe him. The journalist hatched a scheme to get Obeidi and his family out of the country before he was killed by insurgents who wanted to silence him. Obeidi gave over...