Thunder run (1 Viewer)

[dragon53]

THUNDER RUN---3D movie underway based on the book by Pulitzer-winning (and former NEWS & OBSERVER reporter) David Zucchino about the US armored attack to seize Baghdad in April, 2003. Gerard Butler, Sam Worthington and Matthew McConaughey star. Simon West (THE EXPENDABLES 2, CON AIR) is the director.

 

[Scott]

Oh Boy a rah rah movie about Iraq II that we sortta won......."Operation Lipstick on a Pig."

 

[Buster]

Oh Boy a rah rah movie about Iraq II that we sortta won......."Operation Lipstick on a Pig."

YAWN, yet another negative post from you-know-who bashing anything that "might" show the troops in a positive light.

Respects :rolleyes2:

B.

 

[Scott]

YAWN, yet another negative post from you-know-who bashing anything that "might" show the troops in a positive light.

Respects :rolleyes2:

B.

Good people in a Fiasco. Just victims. Black Hawk Down is a good example plus Hurt Locker of our troops in a bad situation that just didn't have to happen.

Hope this movie isn't Heart Break Ridge or The Green Berets or for the Red Dawn crowd.

 

[Scott]

http://www.variety.com/article/VR1118054023

Freedom Films closes P&A for 'Thunder Run'
3D actioner tells story of capture of Baghdad
By Dave McNary
Freedom Films is advancing toward production of "Thunder Run," the story of the capture of Baghdad in 2003, with the closing of a domestic P&A financing arrangement.
The CG 3-D action thriller, set to go into production this summer, was first announced in October with Gerard Butler, Sam Worthington and Matthew McConaughey starring and Simon West directing. "Thunder Run" is co-financed by Brian Presley's Freedom Films and Fred Malmburg's Paradox Entertainment.

Ashok Amritraj's Hyde Park International is handling sales at Cannes.

VFX production has begun on the film. Presley is producing alongside Jib Polhemus of The Graphic Film Company. Script is adapted by Robert Port and Ken Nolan ("Black Hawk Down") from "Thunder Run - The Armored Strike to Capture Baghdad" by David Zucchino.

"Thunder Run" will focus on three battalions and the fewer than 1,000 men launching a thrust of tanks and Bradley Fighting Vehicles into Baghdad in April 2003. That assault was the opening of a three-day blitzkrieg, which military professionals often refer to as a lightning strike, or "thunder run."

Freedom Films is represented by the Gersh Agency.

Contact Dave McNary at dave.mcnary@variety.com

 

[Scott]

http://www.variety.com/article/VR1118054023

Freedom Films closes P&A for 'Thunder Run'
3D actioner tells story of capture of Baghdad
By Dave McNary
Freedom Films is advancing toward production of "Thunder Run," the story of the capture of Baghdad in 2003, with the closing of a domestic P&A financing arrangement.
The CG 3-D action thriller, set to go into production this summer, was first announced in October with Gerard Butler, Sam Worthington and Matthew McConaughey starring and Simon West directing. "Thunder Run" is co-financed by Brian Presley's Freedom Films and Fred Malmburg's Paradox Entertainment.

Ashok Amritraj's Hyde Park International is handling sales at Cannes.

VFX production has begun on the film. Presley is producing alongside Jib Polhemus of The Graphic Film Company. Script is adapted by Robert Port and Ken Nolan ("Black Hawk Down") from "Thunder Run - The Armored Strike to Capture Baghdad" by David Zucchino.

"Thunder Run" will focus on three battalions and the fewer than 1,000 men launching a thrust of tanks and Bradley Fighting Vehicles into Baghdad in April 2003. That assault was the opening of a three-day blitzkrieg, which military professionals often refer to as a lightning strike, or "thunder run."

Freedom Films is represented by the Gersh Agency.

Contact Dave McNary at dave.mcnary@variety.com

David Zucchino's book is well reviewed on Amazon.

 

[Fubar]

Buster, There is always the ignore button.

 

[Wraith]

I've read the book half a dozen times. It's a non stop roller coaster of a ride and if done properly, could make an awesome balls-out action war film. I'd thoroughly recommend the book to anyone even mildly interested.