{"id":291,"date":"2009-04-09T22:02:00","date_gmt":"2009-04-09T22:02:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/filmchat\/2009\/04\/newsbites-the-war-movie-edition\/"},"modified":"2009-04-09T22:02:00","modified_gmt":"2009-04-09T22:02:00","slug":"newsbites-the-war-movie-edition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/filmchat\/2009\/04\/newsbites-the-war-movie-edition.html","title":{"rendered":"Newsbites: The war movie edition!"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><head><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><\/head><body><p><span style=\"font-family: georgia\"><a name=\"1\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\">1.<\/a> Terrence Howard and Cuba Gooding Jr. have joined the cast of <i><a href=\"http:\/\/filmchatblog.blogspot.com\/2009\/03\/newsbites-historical-and-biblical.html#8\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Red Tails<\/a><\/i>, the George Lucas-produced World War II movie based, however loosely, on \u201cthe first all-black aerial combat unit\u201d. This is at least the second time Gooding has been involved with a film on this subject; in 1995, he co-starred with Laurence Fishburne and others in a TV-movie called <i><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/B000053V7E\/petertchatta\" target=\"_blank\" class=\" decorated-link\" rel=\"nofollow\">The Tuskegee Airmen<\/a><\/i>. \u2014 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.comingsoon.net\/news\/movienews.php?id=54254\" target=\"_blank\" class=\" decorated-link\" rel=\"nofollow\">ComingSoon.net<\/a>, <i><a href=\"http:\/\/weblogs.variety.com\/thompsononhollywood\/2009\/04\/lucasfilm-starts-red-tails.html\" target=\"_blank\" class=\" decorated-link\" rel=\"nofollow\">Variety<\/a><\/i> (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.variety.com\/article\/VR1118002165.html?categoryid=13&amp;cs=1&amp;nid=2562\" target=\"_blank\" class=\" decorated-link\" rel=\"nofollow\">x2<\/a>), <i><a href=\"http:\/\/www.hollywoodreporter.com\/hr\/content_display\/news\/e3i00fedae3dae3411c28b5f2db3a363656\" target=\"_blank\" class=\" decorated-link\" rel=\"nofollow\">Hollywood Reporter<\/a><\/i>, <a href=\"http:\/\/movies.yahoo.com\/news\/movies.ap.org\/cast-announced-lucas-war-drama-red-tails-ap\" target=\"_blank\" class=\" decorated-link\" rel=\"nofollow\">Associated Press<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p><a name=\"2\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\">2.<\/a> Disney and Jerry Bruckheimer have bought the screen rights to <i><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/1416580514\/petertchatta\" target=\"_blank\" class=\" decorated-link\" rel=\"nofollow\">Horse Soldiers<\/a><\/i>, an upcoming book about \u201ca band of elite special forces and CIA operatives who secretly invaded Afghanistan post-9\/11 on horseback and helped Afghan fighters capture the city of Mazar-i-Sharif and topple the Taliban.\u201d This would not be the first time Bruckheimer, best known for his action and fantasy movies, has tackled this sort of subject matter; he previously produced Ridley Scott\u2019s <i><a href=\"http:\/\/filmchatblog.blogspot.com\/2004\/03\/newsbites-burial-hermione-300-escape.html#4\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Black Hawk Down<\/a><\/i> (2001; <a href=\"http:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20060523203717\/http:\/\/www.vancourier.com\/issues02\/014202\/entertainment\/014202en2.html\" target=\"_blank\" class=\" decorated-link\" rel=\"nofollow\">my review<\/a>) and acquired the film rights to a magazine article on \u2018<a href=\"http:\/\/filmchatblog.blogspot.com\/2007\/02\/newsbites-winter-howard-jihadists-opus.html#3\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Jihadists in Paradise<\/a>\u2018. \u2014 <i><a href=\"http:\/\/www.variety.com\/article\/VR1118002181.html?categoryid=13&amp;cs=1\" target=\"_blank\" class=\" decorated-link\" rel=\"nofollow\">Variety<\/a><\/i><\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>1. Terrence Howard and Cuba Gooding Jr. have joined the cast of Red Tails, the George Lucas-produced World War II movie based, however loosely, on \u201cthe first all-black aerial combat unit\u201d. This is at least the second time Gooding has been involved with a film on this subject; in 1995, he co-starred with Laurence Fishburne [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1116,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-291","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Newsbites: The war movie edition!<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"1. 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