Bruce Willis to make pro-Iraq War movie "to tell the truth"

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Best not to ask about the whole opening-reel subplot about the actual reason those diehard GIs were sent there in the first place...

Willis film to show diehard GIs 'fighting for freedom'

"...I am baffled to understand why the things I saw happening in Iraq are not being reported," he told MSNBC, the US news channel.

He is expected to base the film on the writings of the independent blogger Michael Yon, a former special forces green beret who was embedded with Deuce Four and sent regular dispatches about their heroics.

Yon was at the soldiers' ball with Willis, who got to know him through his internet war reports on a blog site. "What he is doing is something the American media and maybe the world media isn't doing," the actor said, "and that's telling the truth about what's happening in the war in Iraq..."

― kingfish hobo juckie (kingfish 2.0), Monday, 28 November 2005 18:36 (twenty years ago)

Not even this will remove the putrid aura of "The Whole Ten Yards".

― Dan (You Know That's The Motivation) Perry (Dan Perry), Monday, 28 November 2005 18:38 (twenty years ago)

Did TWTY have Amanda Peet in the nudity?

― Huk-L (Huk-L), Monday, 28 November 2005 18:39 (twenty years ago)

As long as he doesn't flash his gun of destruction, I'm cool with it. Good lord. Color of Night...

― Nathalie (stevie nixed), Monday, 28 November 2005 18:42 (twenty years ago)

the whole ten yards of it

― oooh, Monday, 28 November 2005 18:44 (twenty years ago)

/huk-l

― oooh, Monday, 28 November 2005 18:45 (twenty years ago)

Hey, Bruce wants to make his own equivalent of John Wayne's The Green Berets, let him.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Monday, 28 November 2005 18:45 (twenty years ago)

Michael Yon is a self-aggrandizing kiss-ass. By like page 14 of his autobiography I already had him pegged as one of the guys I absolutely fucking hated serving with. OTOH, there were lots of people like that who were perfectly okay individuals, just intolerable to me personally for various reasons of principle.

He did however kill a man in a bar with his bare hands at 19. That's probably what drew Willis to him.

― TOMBOT, Monday, 28 November 2005 18:47 (twenty years ago)

because bruce has killed entire bars with his Bruno schtick. am i right???

― gear (gear), Monday, 28 November 2005 18:49 (twenty years ago)

maybe he can re-record ballads of the green berets in his "return of bruno" motown voice

― oooh, Monday, 28 November 2005 18:49 (twenty years ago)

btw i think this movie will be pretty good

― oooh, Monday, 28 November 2005 18:49 (twenty years ago)

to tell the truth

Pontius Pilate to thread!

― Aimless (Aimless), Monday, 28 November 2005 18:50 (twenty years ago)

dammit, i fucked up the original post. it was supposed to say something about "Best not to ask about the whole opening-reel subplot was removed..."

― kingfish hobo juckie (kingfish 2.0), Monday, 28 November 2005 18:53 (twenty years ago)

Willis is likely to take on the role of the unit's commander, Lieutenant-Colonel Erik Kurilla, 39, a Bruce Willis lookalike except with more hair, a chest full of medals and a glamorous blonde wife.

― gear (gear), Monday, 28 November 2005 18:55 (twenty years ago)

In May, Yon took a photograph of a soldier from the Deuce Four cradling a little Iraqi girl who had been fatally wounded by a suicide bomber. He sensed that the inhabitants of Mosul were turning against the insurgents.

"People began to realise that all the insurgents ever did was break things and kill people," he said.

― gear (gear), Monday, 28 November 2005 18:56 (twenty years ago)

Anyone who makes Michael Chiklis look good is just... ARRRG, BLEEEEUURG! fucking hell.

― dali madison's nut (donut), Monday, 28 November 2005 18:59 (twenty years ago)

If he gets this made by 2007, we are gonna be outta there and the civil war will be in full bloom, so no one will notice...

― Dr Morbius (Dr Morbius), Monday, 28 November 2005 19:23 (twenty years ago)

D'ya think Brucie will give any screentime to soldiers from nations other than the US, or will this be another Shaving Ryan's Privates flag-wave-athon?

― Hello Sunshine (Hello Sunshine), Monday, 28 November 2005 19:28 (twenty years ago)

Will Saddam be played by Billy Zane?

― dali madison's nut (donut), Monday, 28 November 2005 19:29 (twenty years ago)

Frankly, this story says more than anything Willis will ever do, even though it's perfectly in line with what Willis is trying to point out. But I'd rather hear it from the soldiers themselves instead of Bruno.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Monday, 28 November 2005 19:30 (twenty years ago)

"Will Saddam be played by Billy Zane? "

No, as the first rule of Holywood says that he will have to have an English accent if he's going to be TRULY EVIL.

― Hello Sunshine (Hello Sunshine), Monday, 28 November 2005 19:44 (twenty years ago)

Gary Oldman could do Saddam.

― Huk-L (Huk-L), Monday, 28 November 2005 19:57 (twenty years ago)

Tim Curry, then.

― dali madison's nut (donut), Monday, 28 November 2005 20:10 (twenty years ago)

(Nah, "too faggy" for Bruno, I'm guessing.)

― dali madison's nut (donut), Monday, 28 November 2005 20:10 (twenty years ago)

Oldman could even keep his Batman Begins mustache.

― Huk-L (Huk-L), Monday, 28 November 2005 20:11 (twenty years ago)

do you think that would be funny?

― oooh, Monday, 28 November 2005 20:12 (twenty years ago)

I think Roger Moore as Saddam would be funny.

― Huk-L (Huk-L), Monday, 28 November 2005 20:15 (twenty years ago)

that would be some unlikely casting

― oooh, Monday, 28 November 2005 20:16 (twenty years ago)

Bob Saget

― dali madison's nut (donut), Monday, 28 November 2005 20:26 (twenty years ago)

Who gets to play Dubya? How about Arnie?

― Hello Sunshine (Hello Sunshine), Monday, 28 November 2005 20:28 (twenty years ago)

What about Udo Kier? Are german or undefined european accents more or less evil?

― kingfish hobo juckie (kingfish 2.0), Monday, 28 November 2005 20:29 (twenty years ago)

http://www.personal.psu.edu/users/b/p/bpd132/Pictures/web/soup%20nazi.jpg

― Gerard (Gerard), Monday, 28 November 2005 20:32 (twenty years ago)

Alec Baldwin as Saddamn, Ron Howard (with hairpiece) as Dubya, Jason Alexander as Rumsfeld.

xpost!

― Huk-L (Huk-L), Monday, 28 November 2005 20:33 (twenty years ago)

You said it :-) The Soup Nazi reminds me of Saddam every single time.

― Gerard (Gerard), Monday, 28 November 2005 20:34 (twenty years ago)

what we really need now is a rambo in iraq movie.

― J.D. (Justyn Dillingham), Tuesday, 29 November 2005 00:01 (twenty years ago)

http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/6280/945/1600/summer%20camp%20in%20Gaza.jpg

― Amateur(ist) (Amateur(ist)), Tuesday, 29 November 2005 00:06 (twenty years ago)

Bruce Willis to make film about Bruce Willis' tiny cock to "tell the truth".

― We Are the Dregs of the Motherfucking Earth (noodle vague), Tuesday, 29 November 2005 03:01 (twenty years ago)

will 50 Cent be in it?

― gabbneb (gabbneb), Tuesday, 29 November 2005 03:04 (twenty years ago)

two years pass...

man whatever happened to this

― and what, Wednesday, 12 November 2008 17:49 (seventeen years ago)

This on a double bill with the Benigni Iraq film.

― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 12 November 2008 21:13 (seventeen years ago)

would pay to see

― Aimless, Wednesday, 12 November 2008 21:21 (seventeen years ago)

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