Harrison Ford to star in The Battle for Fallujah

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Variety reports that Harrison Ford will star in the first movie to spawn from the war in Iraq "The Battle for Fallujah". Universals Michael Shamberg and Stacey Sher have bought the film rights to the book "No True Glory: The Battle for Fallujah," to be published in May.

The book was written by Bing West, an ex-Marine and former assistant secretary of defense for international security affairs who is now a foreign correspondent covering the Iraq war. West will write the script with son Owen, a longtime Marine rifleman who left the service to become a trader at Goldman Sachs but returned to fight in Iraq for a year.

After four Americans were mutilated and hanged in Fallujah, the White House ordered an assault on the insurgent stronghold to be led by Gen. Jim Mattis (to be played by Ford). Marine forces devastated the opposition and were 48 hours away from taking control of Fallujah when the White House abruptly ordered them to stop. The Marines lost 28 soldiers the first time around and added another 50 fatalities after the White House ordered them to go back and finish the job six months later.

Source: Variety

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