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Stone returns to Vietnam

Oliver Stone is set to make a film about the 1968 massacre in the My Lai region

Having spent a good portion of his career making films about America’s grand military folly in Vietnam, Oliver Stone is to return to the region for a drama about the 1968 My Lai massacre.

'Pinkville' (the description on a military map for the My Lai region) will star Bruce Willis as Army General William R Peers, who supervised the investigation into the massacre of hundreds of villagers – many of them women and children – by American soldiers.

Channing Tatum ('A Guide to Recognizing Your Saints') will play Hugh Thompson Jr, a helicopter pilot who flew between the Americans and the Vietnamese in an effort to stop the killing, and who later testified against guilty soldiers.

Michael Pena, who previously worked with Stone on 'World Trade Center', is in talks to play Captain Ernest Medina, the commanding officer who was charged with the crimes but ultimately exonerated of any wrong doing.

The $40 million project will follow Peers’ efforts to expose the truth behind the military cover-up that followed, and is set to go into production early next year.

Author: Chris Tilly



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