Sam Worthington, Gerard Butler and Matthew McConaughey are to team up for the 3D motion capture action flick, Thunder Run, reports Thompson on Film.
Con Air and Expendables 2 director Simon West is directing the film, which is based on Davd Zucchino's novel Thunder Run - The Armored Strike to Capture Baghdad. According to the press release, Thunder Run is "the untold story of the dangerous and bloody capture of Baghdad by American Forces at the onset of the Iraq War. In April 2003, three battalions and fewer than a thousand men launched a violent thrust of tanks and Bradley Fighting Vehicles into the heart of a city of five million, igniting a three-day blitzkrieg, which military professionals often refer to as a lightning strike, or "thunder run." In telling the story of the surprise assault on Baghdad- one of the most decisive battles in recent American combat history - this movie paints the harrowing picture of the soldiers on the front lines and the realities of modern warfare." It's somewhat unsurprisingly being scripted by the guys behind Black Hawk Down.
West last directed the underwhelming Jason Statham starrer, The Mechanic, but he'll always have Con Air... I'm not a huge fan of motion capture, but it's an interesting set-up to use it in.