Harrison Ford May Lead Charge in Falluja Movie

[Career Prole]

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Producers at Universal Pictures are developing what would be Hollywood's first feature film about the war in Iraq, with actor Harrison Ford ready to portray a U.S. general in the movie, the studio said on Friday.

The combat drama would be based on the upcoming book "No True Glory," an account of the battle for Falluja by Bing West, a Marine veteran and former U.S. assistant defense secretary now covering the war as a foreign correspondent, a studio spokesman said.

A Universal-based production company, Double Features, recently optioned movie rights to the book, which will be adapted by West and his son, Owen, a veteran Marine rifleman. The book is due out in May from Bantam, a unit of the Random House publishing company.

Although Ford, 62, is "attached" to the project -- Hollywood parlance for a loose commitment to star in the film if it gets made -- he is not under contract, the studio said. And Universal has only given the go-ahead for development of a screenplay. No money has been earmarked for production yet.

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&ncid=762&e=1&u=/nm/20041217/en_nm/leisure_fallujah_dc

I'd rate it four lunches up...
:puke: :puke: :puke: :puke:

Write to Indiana Jones and tell him it's a no-go! :(

[elehhhhna]

1. Well , they ARE calling up elderly men...

[edbermac]

2. Leading the charge? In what? His wheelchair?

[mcscajun]

6. He's only 62...three years older than Gen. Tommy Franks

You were expecting maybe Matt Damon?

Generals aren't Kids.

[cornermouse]

3. Either way, I'm not going to watch it.

If it stays true to facts, I don't think I can stand to watch it and if it recreates Bush's fantasy, I'm absolutely not spending any of my money on it.

[illflem]

4. Jim Carrey could play a more representative general than Ford

[elehhhhna]

5. I nominate AHNULT Svartzkopfennator

[imenja]

7. not a good idea

I don't think people want to see a Hollywood movie about the Iraq war. It's either going to promote patriotic myths or, far less likely, a more honest account that will send the right wing media into a tizzy. I predict the former.

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[9119495]

9. Ho wdo we know this won't be an idictment of policy?

I thought HF was a liberal. Perhaps the angle will be "Black Hawk Down"-ish.

[imenja]

13. producers make films, actors act

And they care about money far more than politics. If it is critical, it will be only slightly so. The bulk of the movie will celebrate America's quest for democracy and the heroism of the troops.

[Moloch]

10. Dammit!

I thought Harrison Ford was a left winger? I hope this movie isn't PROPAGANDA like some of the movies that came out during vietnam.

I thought Indiana Jones 4 was going to be released next year? Now that I would actually like to see.

[Bombtrack]

11. He's basically a democrat. Most of the greatest war movies have been made

by liberals and reflect realities of war. All Quiet on the Western Front, Platoon, Saving Private Ryan.

You shoudn't find anybody who doesn't want to see a fourth Indy ASAP

[democracyindanger]

12. Indy 4 is dead in the water

Something to do with Lucas and Spielberg not agreeing about how much control each would have, I think.

[Bombtrack]

14. It doesn't say anything about it being dead on it's IMDB page

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0367882/