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26/04/2004
Sam Mendes to film Gulf War memoir
'Road to Perdition' director Sam Mendes is to bring Anthony Swofford's Gulf War memoir 'Jarhead' to the big screen.
Variety reports that the film will begin shooting in the autumn, and the script has been penned by 'Cast Away' scriptwriter William Broyles, a Vietnam veteran.
With his father, grandfather and older brother having served in the US Marines, Swofford enlisted at the age of 18 in 1988 and following the first Gulf War, attended the University of California and the Iowa Writers' Workshop.
'Jarhead', a term used to describe Marines, is Swofford's first book.
Commenting on the film, Mendes said: "This is equal parts black humour, honesty, rage, lyricism, profanity and the mixture of machismo jarhead culture."
"With the exception of 'Three Kings', this is a war that has been overlooked but which has a burning relevance to what is happening right now in the Middle East."
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