Neal McDonough raising Flag for Eastwood

Another actor signed up for Clint Eastwoods new movie "Flags of Our Fathers". This time Neal McDonough ("Minority Report", "Walking Tall") joins the cast of Eastwood's adaptation of James Bradley's book "Flags of our Fathers", which was published in 2000, with Ron Powers. For this movie the director teams up with Steven Spielberg and his production company Dream Works. The screenplay is written by Paul Haggis ("Million Dollar Baby", "Crash").

The movie will be placed at the Battle of Iwo Jima, which took place in the winter of 1945. This battle was a turning point in the Pacific Theater. One of the outcomes was one of World War II's most enduring images. The photograph of six soldiers raising an American flag on the flank of Mount Suribachi, which was the island's commanding high point.

One of the six was Navy corpsman John Bradley (Ryan Phillippe). Bradley never mentioned his experiences to his family, and it was only after his death in 1994 that his son James discovered his father's heroism.