Hollywood ace Phillip Noyce, who is known for his cutting-edge thrillers, has been roped in to direct Alive Day, which accounts a real-life secret military mission in Iraq.
The film is adapted from Samuel Hill’s military task-force novel Six Days To Zeus: Alive Day. It follows the true story of Hill, called Chief in the novel, who led a unit of seven men from the Navy Seals, Green Berets, Army Rangers and Marine Recon.
They conducted a secret surveillance mission during the Saddam Hussein regime. The film will be made from the screenplay by Kathleen McLaughlin.
Talking about the screenplay, Noyce said: “It is part American Sniper, part ‘Born on the Fourth of July’, part Coming Home, and part Deer Hunter, but different to all of them in that it has an Agatha Christie whodunit sensibility to it. (IANS)
