Ed Zwick gets Jennifer Connelly for THE BLOOD DIAMOND!!

Ahoy, squirts! Quint here with an update on the Ed Zwick directed dramatic thriller thingy THE BLOOD DIAMOND. Jennifer Connelly will star alongside Leonardo DiCaprio in the flick directed by the dude who made THE LAST SAMURAI and who almost made Ehren Kruger's shitty adaptation of Stephen King's THE TALISMAN (bullet dodged).

The story has a poor African farmer who gets caught up with a Yankee diamond smuggler (DiCaprio). Of course the mining industry doesn't care for the DiCaprio character and chaos ensues. Is Connelly the "poor African farmer?" I don't think "poor African farmer" when I look at Connelly, so I'll go out on a limb and say she's playing someone else. Heh.