Posted: 1/24/2008 8:02:37 AM EDT
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Generation Kill HBO Mini Series Read the book, thought it was pretty good, hopefully the series is as good. |
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Heres some info directly from HBO HBO Update, at bottom of page June 1, 2007 | HBO drafts cast for 'Kill' mini By Nellie Andreeva (Hollywood Reporter) HBO Films has assembled the principal cast of its ambitious seven-part miniseries "Generation Kill," from "The Wire" creators David Simon and Ed Burns. Alexander Skarsgard, James Ransone, Stark Sands, Jon Huertas and Lee Tergesen lead the ensemble cast of the mini, which chronicles the first month of the American-led 2003 Iraq invasion through the eyes of young Marine whose unit was part of the first wave of the U.S. military assault on Baghdad. Susanna White and Simon Cellan Jones have been tapped to direct "Kill," which is based on Evan Wright's award-winning nonfiction book. Also co-starring in the mini are David Barrera ("Evan Almighty"), newcomer Josh Barrett, newcomer Wilson Bethel, Nabil Elouahabi ("The Path to 9/11"), Neal Jones ("Rescue Me"), Chance Kelly ("The Departed"), Michael Kelly ("The Sopranos"), Eric Ladin ("Surface"), Jonah Lotan ("24"), Billy Lush ("The Black Donnellys"), Kellan Lutz ("Accepted"), newcomer J. Salome Martinez Jr., Marc Menchaca ("The Alamo"), Eric Nenninger ("Malcolm in the Middle"), Pawel Szajda ("Under the Tuscan Sun"), Rey Valentin ("One Tree Hill"), Brian Patrick Wade ("The Guardian") and Owain Yeoman ("The Nine" ). Also a key member of the ensemble cast is former Marine and Iraq War veteran Rudy Reyes, who will play himself. "Kill," produced for HBO Films by Company Pictures, will be filmed through year's end in South Africa, Mozambique and Namibia for a 2008 premiere on HBO. White ("Bleak House") and Jones ("The Trial of Tony Blair") will direct from scripts by Simon, Burns and Evan Wright. Simon, Burns, George Faber, Charles Pattinson and Anne Thomopoulos will executive produce. Nina Noble serves as co- executive producer and Andrea Calderwood as producer. |
this is gonna SUCK ASS...both directors are brits and one is a woman, so you have that bias, and "the trial of tony blair" is a fictional account of tony blair being tried for WAR CRIMES as a result of siding with us in iraq. i don't see anything good coming out of this. |