Posted on 12/16/2004 7:56:38 AM PST by Pikamax
Harrison Ford signs for Iraq war film
Staff and agencies Thursday December 16, 2004
Harrison Ford: Commissioned. Photo: PA
Harrison Ford is to star in what will be Hollywood's first feature about the current Iraq war. Producers Michael Shamberg and Stacey Sher have bought the option for No True Glory: The Battle for Fallujah, a non-fiction written by Slate reporter Bing West.
The book is due to be published in May and tells the story of an assault on Iraqi insurgents in Falluja, from the perspective of US marines.
Variety reports that Ford is already attached to play General Jim Mattis, in charge of the attack. Shamberg and Sher's production company Double Feature has already been working with Ford on the medical drama For His Sick Kid, based on the novel by Geeta Anand.
It is probable that the film will strike a different tone to the only major feature about the US's previous war in Iraq, 1999's Three Kings, which told the story of a group of cynical, self-serving US soldiers. West's coverage of the war has tended to side with US troops.
I'm waiting for my close-up Mr. DeMille.
The back of it.
Harrison Ford slams Bush policy, guns In Spain interview:
"I'm very disturbed about the direction American foreign policy is going," said Ford, according to the Australian Associated Press.
"I think something needs to be done to help alleviate the conditions which have created a disenfranchised and angry faction in the Middle East," said the 62-year-old Ford, the Australian news wire reported.
"I don't think military intervention is the correct solution," he said. "I regret what we as a country have done so far."
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Nothing like a liberal hypocrite making money off of something they disapprove of...
remember that one? that evil, lying US gov't and military industrial complex...
turn our good boys into murderers and junkies...
More Hollywood crap. I can hardly watcha film anymore without seeing the anti-American agenda in there somewhere...
"West's coverage of the war has tended to side with US troops."
Harrison Ford's though hasn't.
didn't it cast our troops as thieves? I barely remember it...Clooney's in it, so it's unbearable for me to watch again.
An evil Marine Colonel plots the destruction of a Fallujah mosque filled with Friday worshipers while a courageous Lt. crosses over to try to warn them before it's too late.
Yeah no kidding. If he was KKK Byrd, then he would be painted as a hero.
I'm talking about Best Picture winners. Most of them are conservative with very few exceptions (American Beauty)
Three troops set out to get some booty that Saddam had looted over the years and have a change of heart along the way. If you think that American soldiers are infallible if not quasi-divine as opposed to good hearted human beings like most people then you would have a problems with it. It captured the tone of the first Gulf War perfectly. The first cell phone/24-7 newschannel war.
Vietnam draft dodger Harrison Ford finally gets his shot at pretending to be in combat. Maybe that puke Brian Dennehy will be his co-star.
Kelly's Heroes came at the tail end of the post WWII movie trend. There was room in the "crowd" for it. "Three Kings" and "Courage Under Fire" were the only pictures of the Gulf War that the masses got. That's the problem. I think that's hurting us now.
Does Ford play Bung West?
When I said that those two movies were the only pictures of the Gulf War the masses got, I meant from Hollywood.
Well WW2 is a much richer and vaster canvas to deal with then the first Gulf War which seemed to end in the blink of an eye. Did we need a film about Saddam's fearsome Republican Guard! (remember that 1990 canard?)
If "Three Kings was an updated "Kelly's Heroes" well it sucked. Kelley's Heroes was a great ensemble film and is still funny to watch today. "Three Kings was a film I could only watch once, it just had no repeat value for me but "Kelley's Heroes" I can watch anytime it comes on.
Brian Dennehy served in the Marine Corps before he got into acting so he ain't no punk or puke.
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