Oliver Stone Visits Pinkville
Oliver Stone will return to Vietnam with Pinkville, a drama about the investigation of the 1968 My Lai massacre. Bruce Willis and Channing Tatum will star. Mikko Alanne wrote the script.
In the movie, Willis will play Army Gen. William R. Peers, who supervised the investigation into the massacre by U.S. soldiers of as many as 500 My Lai villagers, most of them unarmed women, children and elderly. Tatum will play Hugh Thompson, a helicopter pilot who, upon realizing what was happening below, put a stop to the killing by placing his craft between gunmen and the few villagers who were left, and telling his two shipmates to fire on the soldiers if they shot any more people. They airlifted the survivors and reported the carnage to superiors. Thompson was initially excoriated for his actions, while Peers’ revelation of one of the most atrocious acts in U.S. military history (and subsequent military cover-up) helped galvanize opposition to the war. Pinkville is the description on a military map for the region where My Lai is.
Stone is in final talks with United Artists about financing the film. MGM will distribute. Stone last directed World Trade Center.
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