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Hollywood film about Iraq war to begin filming
(AFP)
Updated: 2007-07-18 09:10
Filming was set to begin next week on "The Hurt Locker," a Hollywood
drama starring
Jeremy Renner, seen here in February 2007, Anthony Mackie and Brian
Geraghty,
about the travails of a US army unit beset by bombers and snipers in
Iraq.[AFP]
Filming was set to begin next week on "The Hurt Locker," a Hollywood
drama about the travails of a US army unit beset by bombers and snipers
in Iraq, US entertainment media reported Tuesday.
The movie, starring Jeremy Renner, Anthony Mackie and Brian Geraghty and
directed by Katherine Bigelow, follows an elite army explosive ordinance
disposal team in present-day Baghdad.
Filming will take place in Jordan and Kuwait on the movie, which is
inspired by actual events as well as recently declassified information,
according to the Hollywood Reporter.
"It's the first movie about the Iraq War that purports to show the
experience of the soldiers," script writer Mark Boal told the Hollywood
Reporter from Jordan.
"We wanted to show the kinds of things that soldiers go through that you
can't see on CNN, and I don't mean that in a censorship-conspiracy way. I
just mean the news doesn't actually put photographers in with units that
are this elite."
Boal added: "Most war movies don't come out until the war was over."
"It's really exciting for me, coming out of the world of journalism, to
have a movie come out about a conflict while the conflict is still going
on," he told the Hollywood Reporter.
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