We Were Soldiers: The Screenplay - Softcover

Wallace, Randall

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9780971243323: We Were Soldiers: The Screenplay

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0971243328 ISBN 13: 9780971243323

Publisher: WHEELHOUSE BOOKS., 2002

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From Randall Wallace, the Academy Award� nominated screenwriter of "Braveheart", comes this unique companion book to the recent Paramount Pictures blockbuster film "We Were Soldiers" starring Mel Gibson, Madeleine Stowe, Sam Elliott, Greg Kinnear, Chris Klein, Keri Russell, and Barry Pepper. This book offers a facsimile of the film's shooting script, its cuts and changes, scene notes, never-before-seen photos, storyboards, correspondence, and an exclusive interview with director/screenwriter Randall Wallace.

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On November 14, 1965 in the Ia Drang Valley of Vietnam, 400 men from the U.S. 7th "Air" Cavalry under the command of Lt. Col. Hal Moore were dropped into a small clearing known as Landing Zone X-Ray. They were immediately surrounded by 2,000 enemy soldiers. The ensuing battle was one of the most savage in U.S. history.

Twenty-eight years later, Randall Wallace came across Hal Moore and Joe Galloway's battlefield memoir, the New York Times Bestseller, We Were Soldiers Once ... and Young. He was struck by a line in the prologue, "Hollywood got it (the story of American soldiers in Vietnam) wrong every damned time..." Wallace read the book and vowed to adapt Moore and Galloway's story into a film, and "get it right".

This unique book offers a facsimile of the film's shooting script, its cuts and changes, scene notes, photos, storyboards, correspondence, and an exclusive interview with director/screenwriter Randall Wallace.

About the Author:

Randall Wallace is the author of six novels and four feature films; We Were Soldiers, Pearl Harbor, The Man in the Iron Mask, and the 1995 Academy Award� winner Braveheart. He graduated from Duke University with a major in Religion. He lived his childhood years in Tennessee and Virginia, and now resides in Los Angeles.

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