Back when the US was offering outrageous rewards for the bounty on Saddam Hussein and a litter of other terrorists featured on playing cards, D.B. Weiss came up with a script. It was reviewed online, and then later forgotten, but it seems to have new life as it was picked up and will be made into a feature film.
Story revolves around three ex-mercenaries who stumble upon information as to where a wanted terrorist will be for a short period of time. They decide to brave a trip into the volatile region between Pakistan and India to catch the terrorist and claim the $30 million bounty on his head. Each man has a different motive for taking the dangerous journey, and their loyalties are tested when the going gets rough.
Relativity’s Ryan Kavanaugh will produce with David Benioff, Film 360’s Guymon Casady and Michael De Luca. Tucker Tooley, Zach Schiff-Abrams and Ben Forkner will be exec producers.
Personally I am more interested in the story behind the movie. This script got some nice reviews online but appeared to be going nowhere. Now it finds a home and is made into a movie? Was it political timing? Sensitivity to terrorist stories have seemed to have passed in Hollywood.
One of my favourite military movies is Three Kings. Not only is it one of many films with Mark Wahlberg and George Clooney together, but it shows a fictional story in the climate of war in the Dessert Storm era long after it had ended. Now that we have gone well past the Hunt for Hussein story and the war is over (its an occupation now) is it a better time to tell a fictional tale in that turbulent time?
