The Things They Carried film adaption, Tom Hardy 2021

[hudson86]

Looks like this is going into production to start filming early next year.

Fantastic book about the Vietnam war. Looks like a great ensemble cast.

Hopefully they do the book justice, although it will be a challenge. The books a collection of interwoven short stories.

https://deadline.com/2020/11/tom-ha...war-movie-things-they-carried-afm-1234606181/

Pulitzer Prize-finalist O’Brien served in Vietnam in the late 1960s and his experiences course through his work. In The Things They Carried, which is often taught in middle schools and high schools across America, he tells the story of the young men of Alpha Company, a platoon of soldiers sent to fight on the ground during the War. Trekking from village to village amidst chaos and confusion, the young men struggle to navigate a growing labyrinth of physical, mental, and emotional terrains as they battle for the survival of their sanity, innocence, and each other.

The book won the 1990 National Book Critics Circle Award and has been named a New York Times Book of the Century. Stories within the collection have previously been adapted for stage and once for screen in the shape of 1998 movie A Soldier’s Sweetheart starring Kiefer Sutherland.

 

[KIA]

Fantastic. I really enjoyed the book.

 

[arc@css]

I haven't read the book but it sounds like my kind of film. The fact that Hardy is in it is also a bonus.