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June 09, 2006
Wow! A Movie About Iraq!
For those of you who have been wondering why there haven't been many movies about the situation in Iraq, get ready for one that is worthy of the Michael Moore generation of filmmakers. (It takes a while to find that "perfect script," you know.)
After months of searching, "Boys Don't Cry" director Kimberly Peirce has found her leading man for the Iraq war drama "Stop-Loss."
Ryan Phillippe is in negotiations to star in the Paramount film, playing a soldier who returns home to Texas and is called to duty again in Iraq through the military's "stop-loss" procedure. The soldier then refuses to return to battle.
Abbie Cornish already has signed on to play the female lead. The studio is eyeing a late-summer start date.
Peirce has taken her time in finding the right project to follow up her feature directorial debut, 1999's "Boys Don't Cry." That film brought Hilary Swank her first best actress Oscar as well as a nomination for co-star Chloe Sevigny.
Phillippe, who co-starred in last year's Oscar-winning best picture "Crash," next appears in Clint Eastwood's WWII drama "Flags of Our Father" and in "Breach," opposite Chris Cooper.
Take a look at Phillippe:
The obvious choice for today's enlightened soldier...
Posted by Pam at June 9, 2006 09:59 AM
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Aaron, are there any 'real' men and women in todays films? You know like Bogart and Hepburn. It seems all the film 'stars' are adolescent not only in their looks but in their actions.
Posted by: docdave at June 9, 2006 01:06 PM
i think u meant pam ;-)
Posted by: aaron at June 10, 2006 12:38 AM