Coen Brothers to Rewrite Angelina Jolie Project Seattle Post-Intelligencer Copyright 2013 Seattle Post-Intelligencer. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed. Published 8:31 am, Tuesday, February 26, 2013 Oscars fashion hits and misses The project, based on Laura Hillenbrand's 2010 novel Unbroken, will chronicle the life of Air Force pilot Zamperini, a former track Olympian whose plane crashed in the Pacific in 1943. After returning home, he went on to carry the Olympic torch years later at the 1998 Winter Olympics in Nagano, Japan, close to where he had been held prisoner during World War II.