Disney has optioned the rights to "The Queen of Katwe, " and is starting work on a movie, Crothers said.

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Mutesi wakes at 5 a.m. every morning to "begin a two-hour trek through Katwe to fill a jug with drinkable water, walking through lowland that is often so severely flooded by Uganda's torrential rains that many residents sleep in hammocks near their ceilings to avoid drowning, " he wrote.

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