After
a dramatic departure from director Steven Spielberg and DreamWorks from the
adaptation of the book American Sniper by Chris Kyle, a new breath of life has
been put into the project that counts Bradley Cooper as it’s star and producer.
According
to some reports, Clint Eastwood may be stepping in to replace Spielberg. Eastwood
is currently working on the adaptation of Broadway’s hit musical Jersey Boys to
feature film. He was also planning to do a remake of A Star Is Born featuring
Beyonce Knowles as the lead but with her departure from the project, it
eventually stalled. It’s unclear at this point if Eastwood is indeed on as the
American Sniper director, and if he is it’s unknown if he will try to do A Star
Is Born before.
American
Sniper Synopsis Via Amazon:
He
is the deadliest American sniper ever, called “the devil” by the enemies he
hunted and “the legend” by his Navy SEAL brothers . . .
From
1999 to 2009, U.S. Navy SEAL Chris Kyle recorded the most career sniper kills
in United States military history. The Pentagon has officially confirmed more
than 150 of Kyles kills (the previous American record was 109), but it has
declined to verify the astonishing total number for this book. Iraqi insurgents
feared Kyle so much they named him al-Shaitan (“the devil”) and placed a bounty
on his head. Kyle earned legendary status among his fellow SEALs, Marines, and
U.S. Army soldiers, whom he protected with deadly accuracy from rooftops and
stealth positions. Gripping and unforgettable, Kyle’s masterful account of his
extraordinary battlefield experiences ranks as one of the great war memoirs of
all time.
A
native Texan who learned to shoot on childhood hunting trips with his father,
Kyle was a champion saddle-bronc rider prior to joining the Navy. After 9/11,
he was thrust onto the front lines of the War on Terror, and soon found his
calling as a world-class sniper who performed best under fire. He recorded a
personal-record 2,100-yard kill shot outside Baghdad; in Fallujah, Kyle braved
heavy fire to rescue a group of Marines trapped on a street; in Ramadi, he
stared down insurgents with his pistol in close combat. Kyle talks honestly
about the pain of war—of twice being shot and experiencing the tragic deaths of
two close friends.
American
Sniper also honors Kyles fellow warriors, who raised hell on and off the
battlefield. And in moving first-person accounts throughout, Kyles wife, Taya,
speaks openly about the strains of war on their marriage and children, as well
as on Chris.
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