Tom Hardy to play Sergeant Blackman with Kate Winslett and Al Pacino (1 Viewer)

[The Military Workshop]

This has been an interesting case and UK forum members will be well aware of it. Not sure about Al Pacino playing a British QC.

Tom Hardy and Kate Winslet are tipped to play Sergeant Blackman and his wife in a Hollywood film about Marine A's battle.
Alexander Blackman, 42, who served 1,277 days behind bars, was freed after wife Claire campaigned tirelessly on his behalf.
Lawer Jonathan Goldberg QC could be played by Al Pacino and has spent time in Hollywood discussing film opportunities.

The 2011 Helmand Province incident was the killing, on 15 September 2011, of an injured Taliban insurgent by Royal Marines. Three Royal Marines, known during their trial as Marines A, B, and C, were anonymously tried by court-martial. On 8 November 2013, Marines B and C were acquitted, but Marine A was found guilty of the murder of the Afghan combatant, in contravention of section 42 of the Armed Forces Act 2006. This made him the first British soldier to be convicted of a battlefield murder whilst serving abroad since the Second World War.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-4458002/Tom-Hardy-Kate-Winslet-play-Marine-wife.html

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2011_Helmand_Province_incident

 

[Rutledge]

This has been an interesting case and UK forum members will be well aware of it. Not sure about Al Pacino playing a British QC.

Tom Hardy and Kate Winslet are tipped to play Sergeant Blackman and his wife in a Hollywood film about Marine A's battle.
Alexander Blackman, 42, who served 1,277 days behind bars, was freed after wife Claire campaigned tirelessly on his behalf.
Lawer Jonathan Goldberg QC could be played by Al Pacino and has spent time in Hollywood discussing film opportunities.

The 2011 Helmand Province incident was the killing, on 15 September 2011, of an injured Taliban insurgent by Royal Marines. Three Royal Marines, known during their trial as Marines A, B, and C, were anonymously tried by court-martial. On 8 November 2013, Marines B and C were acquitted, but Marine A was found guilty of the murder of the Afghan combatant, in contravention of section 42 of the Armed Forces Act 2006. This made him the first British soldier to be convicted of a battlefield murder whilst serving abroad since the Second World War.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-4458002/Tom-Hardy-Kate-Winslet-play-Marine-wife.html

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2011_Helmand_Province_incident

We see plenty of Australian and British actors playing iconic Americans in TV and films. Damian Lewis from Band of Brothers and Andrew Lincoln and Lennie James from Walking Dead, for example.