(Samuel L. ) Jackson 'set for Iraq war film'

[leftchick]

Samuel L Jackson is set to play an army doctor


Actor Samuel L Jackson is to star in a new film exploring the aftermath of the Iraq war, it is reported.

The 57-year-old star will play an army medic who has difficulty resuming his normal life in Home of the Brave, says Hollywood newspaper Daily Variety.

The project has yet to secure a distributor, but is scheduled to begin filming in Morocco next month.

Few film-makers have tackled the Iraq war, though recent Hollywood release Jarhead was about the 1991 Gulf War.

The new film is to be produced by Irvine Winkler, whose other credits include Martin Scorsese's Raging Bull and Rocky, which starred Sylvester Stallone.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/4704568.stm

[WannaJumpMyScooter]

1. aftermath of a war that has not ended?

odd premise.

[leftchick]

2. I am guessing it means his personal aftermath

after being at war.

[WannaJumpMyScooter]

5. Or a remake of "rules of engagement"

"are those the motherfuckers?"
yes!
no further questions.

[HysteryDiagnosis]

3. Maybe they will call it a duringmath.... or perhaps newmath... how

about fuzzymath.... I for one will want to see what they do with this film.

[xultar]

10. No shit. Duringmath. Currentmath. Beforemath. Todaymath. Great!

[xultar]

9. It is a work of fiction a freaking movie for gawd sake. Don't jump to

conslusions like freepers do. Wait til it comes out before you condem it. Maybe it takes place in the future. Must things be spelled out so literally. It is a freaking movie not a documentary.

[CrownPrinceBandar]

4. I wonder if it'll have snakes on airplanes.......

or I mean... "There were motherfucking snakes on the airplane!"

[The_Casual_Observer]

6. "exploring the aftermath of the Iraq war"

"exploiting the aftermath of the Iraq war" Aftermath huh?

[xultar]

8. They aren't idiots they know it isn't over but they have to do it in some

context. Perhaps in the movie the writers sped up or wrote things in the future to a time when the time it is over. Geez must everything be spelled out so literally?

[Judi Lynn]

7. Looking forward to seeing this. I expect it will be excellent. n/t

[leftchick]

12. I am too

Samuel L. Jackson is one of my all time favorite actors! :loveya:

[Kolesar]

15. Yeah! I just watched Star Wars "Sith" last night for the first time

And Jackson ruled as usual. Proves he can play many parts. He will probably create a character that will burn an image into the minds of theater-goers for long after they see the film.

[MrPrax]

11. Much rather see "Valley of the Wolves Iraq"

Right now...I wonder when it will get translated? I imagine even the bootlegs on the net are indeciperable...


Turkish movie depicts Americans as savages

Billy Zane, Gary Busey star in Turkey's most-expensive film ever

ISTANBUL, Turkey (AP) -- In the most expensive Turkish movie ever made, American soldiers in Iraq crash a wedding and pump a little boy full of lead in front of his mother.

They kill dozens of innocent people with random machine-gun fire, shoot the groom in the head, and drag those left alive to Abu Ghraib prison -- where a Jewish doctor cuts out their organs, which he sells to rich people in New York, London and Tel Aviv.

(snip)

The movie's American stars are Billy Zane, who plays a self-professed "peacekeeper sent by God," and Gary Busey as the Jewish-American doctor.

U.S. soldiers have become hate figures in Muslim countries around the world after the unpopular war in Iraq. But here in Turkey, a personal grudge fuels the resentment.

"Valley of the Wolves Iraq" opens with a true story: On July 4, 2003, in Sulaymaniyah, Iraq, troops from the U.S. Army's 173rd Airborne Brigade raided and ransacked a Turkish special forces office, threw hoods over the heads of 11 Turkish special forces officers and held them in custody for more than two days.

http://www.cnn.com/2006/WORLD/europe/02/02/turkish.movie.ap/

[leftchick]

13. I would love to see this as well

It is supposed to have a run in the US. I don't know when. One way or the other we will be able to see it I am sure.

[Army]

17. Naturally

If there's one thing a DUer wants to see, it's American soldiers depicted as savages.

[MrPrax]

18. Oh so Grumpy...

I wanna see it coz it's controversial!! I am usually a sucker for that type of thing--although I chickened out on the 'Passion' ;-)

It's Turkey trying to make an 'American style' movie that makes it a 'must-see'--especially if it's controversial!!

You KNOW it's going to be bad...a real turkey.

[thebigidea]

19. yeah, we celebrate troop deaths all the time too

and all that other stuff Ann Coulter and Michelle Malkin say. We just hate those soldier types, why, I even hate all my relatives that served and on holidays try and spit at them as they get off the plane at the airport. Naturally this leads to uncomfortable silence on the ride back home, but I try and break the ice with a friendly cry of "babykiller" under my breath.

All that protesting and letter-writing and stuff trying to prevent the war was a clever ruse - we didn't so much want to prevent the war and soldiers from dying as we wanted to watch really poor Turkish movies.

[PittPoliSci]

14. SNAKES ON A PLANE!

[Kolesar]

16. 'Cause suicide is painless

It brings on many changes
And you can take or leave it if you please.

M*A*S*H was a great antiwar film and antiwar series. It was staged in Korea, but I know it was an anti-Vietnam war show. How many times did we hear Hawkeye cursing the moral horror of having to sew up young boys who should have been home starting their lives?

[Not a robought]

20. If there aren't any snakes on planes

I ain't watchin'