Award
winning director Steven Spielberg and DreamWorks have exited the adaptation of
Chris Kyle, Scott McEwen and Jim DeFelice’s American Sniper, starring Bradley
Cooper has Navy Seal Chris Kyle, the sniper with the highest number of
casualties for an American soldier.
Cooper
and Warner Bros., who was co-producing the film are still attached and are
currently seeking a new director.
Spielberg’s
apparent reason for dropping the project was due to his inability to merge his
vision for the film with the fixed budget.
Earlier
this year Spielberg put another adaptation on hold, the Daniel H. Wilson sci-fi
novel Robopocalypse, saying that he didn’t want to rush the film into
developing before it was ready.
American
Sniper Amazon Synopsis:
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.
Adrenaline-charged
and deeply personal, American Sniper is a thrilling eyewitness account of war
that only one man could tell.
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