Bruce Willis to make pro-war film based on Green Beret blog

[Bush_Eats_Beef]

Willis film to show diehard GIs 'fighting for freedom'
Sarah Baxter, Washington
November 28, 2005

http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/common/story_page/0,5744,17383054%255E601,00.html

ANGERED by negative portrayals of the Iraq conflict, actor Bruce Willis is to make a pro-war film in which US soldiers will be depicted as brave fighters for freedom and democracy. It will be based on the exploits of the heavily decorated members of Deuce Four, the 1st Battalion, 24th Infantry, which has spent the past year battling insurgents in the northern Iraqi town of Mosul.

Willis attended Deuce Four's homecoming ball this month in Seattle, Washington, where the soldiers are on leave, along with Stephen Eads, the producer of Willis's films Armageddon and The Sixth Sense.

The 50-year-old actor said he was in talks about a film of "these guys who do what they are asked to for very little money to defend and fight for what they consider to be freedom". Unlike many Hollywood stars, Willis supports the war and recently offered a $US1million ($1.35million) bounty for the capture of any of al-Qa'ida's most-wanted leaders such as Osama bin Laden, Ayman al-Zawahiri or Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, its commander in Iraq. Willis visited the war zone with his rock and blues band, the Accelerators, in 2003. "I am baffled to understand why the things I saw happening in Iraq are not being reported," he told MSNBC, the US news channel.

He is expected to base the film on the writings of the independent blogger Michael Yon, a former special forces green beret who was embedded with Deuce Four and sent regular dispatches about their heroics. Yon was at the soldiers' ball with Willis, who got to know him through his internet war reports on a blog site. "What he is doing is something the American media and maybe the world media isn't doing," the actor said, "and that's telling the truth about what's happening in the war in Iraq."

[ugarte]

1. An unbankable actor starring in an unpopular war

Like that's really gonna happen.

[sniffa]

2. i doubt this wiLL top "hudson hawk"

but then again, not many fiLms do.

[Dr.Phool]

One more lousy Willis movie I won't be seeing.

Maybe he could do us all a favor, and check out during filming, a la Vic Morrow.

[Norquist Nemesis]

3. Was that "soldier's ball" the one from the Inauguration?

It looks like some propaganda networking was going on.

[whatever4]

4. Bruce Willis can officially go to hell

Used to like they guy. But stupidity kills, no matter how pretty.

[RoBear]

5. One assumes he'll do real research by enlisting...

No? Wonder why????

[Semi_subversive]

6. And Mr. Willis served in which branch??

Didn't think so. Another asshole trying to play soldier. Do the right thing, Brucie. Since you're too freaking old to enlist in the regular Army, sign up for the National Guard and then you can get up close and personal in Iraq!

[Inland]

7. Wonder if it'll be filmed on the location where things going so well?

It'd be perfect. Halliburton can provide the catering truck at six hundred K a day.

[shenmue]

8. Oh for pete's sake

I had hoped that the horrible nature of this war and this administration would be enough to wake up even him.

Guess I overestimated the lad.

[zann725]

9. After losing Demi to sensitive-guy "Ashton"...you think Bruce'd "lose" all

that Macho crap! The older he gets, the meaner, more "pointed" he becomes (like Ahnaaald). All that testosterone "poisoning" quite frankly is UNsympathetic in both movie Protagonists AND real life.

The best place for Bruce these days is walking 10 paces behind Demi and Ashton (as he did a while back at the opening of "Charlie's Angels".) The pic, like the look on Bruce's face was priceless. Karma goes 'round...

[tocqueville]

10. Didn't John Wayne do a similar film during the Vietnam war ?

called the "Green Berets" and the movie was a total flop and even boycotted abroad ? besides it was filmed in a pine forest (!), if I remember well...

[win_in_06]

12. That movie is a fave amongst conservative patriot types. Good comparison

Willis no doubt fancies himself as the modern day "Duke"

[mrgorth]

11. I wonder if he can find a role for

that former girlfriend porn star anal queen of his. I forget her name.