Brian Dennehy as phony war vet.
Burkett thought he was signing on for a short project, but he ended up exposing more than 1,200 bogus Vietnam War records, including those of prominent activists, celebrated war heroes, criminals, politicians, and even a well-known actor. For years, Brian Dennehy publicly maintained he was a Vietnam combat veteran, telling a New York Times reporter in 1989 about his combat wounds, and holding forth about the brutal realities of combat in a 1993 Playboy interview. Burkett's examination of Dennehy's military records showed that during his four years on active duty his only overseas assignment was in Okinawa in 1962, and there was no record of his having ever been wounded.
Actually the casting of the two top stars is a huge selling point, it sounds like it has the real possibility of being a top film.
I hope they show the whole trial was a set up to embarass Bryan and was never about real science.
I’m hoping it’s much better than “Inherit the Wind”. While good drama, ITW is worthless as history. It plays fast and loose with the facts to make the town and the anti-evolution side look evil.
From what I’ve read of the real trial it’s much more interesting than the fake trial in “Inherit the Wind”.