Since audiences don’t seem to be turning out for films based on the Iraq War it makes sense to go ahead and make another Vietnam War, at least that is how Vietnam vet Oliver Stone sees it as Pinkville will return to the director to the subject matter for the fourth time (Platoon, Born on the Fourth of July and Heaven and Earth). Joining already cast Channing Tatum and Bruce Willis are now Woody Harrelson and Michael Pena.
The drama is based on the infamous 1968 My Lai Massacre, in which upward of 500 people — mostly women, children and the elderly — were killed by U.S. soldiers. The massacre ended up being a turning point in the war. Harrelson will play Col. Henderson, the conflicted officer in charge of the task force that committed the massacre. Willis will portray William R. Peers, the real-life Army general who investigated the incident. Tatum will play Hugh Thompson Jr., an Army helicopter pilot who aided the villagers and later testified against the soldiers.
I hope they release this one on Christmas Day because it sounds uplifting as hell doesn’t it?
