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Re: Great Raid, New POW Film
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From: Andi Wolos & Bob Necci
(POW-MIA InterNetwork)
Date: July 30, 2002
"Fiennes Finds Great Raid
Joseph Fiennes will star in the WWII flick The Great Raid.
August 01, 2002 - According to Variety, Actor Joseph Fiennes (Shakespeare in Love) has come onboard The Great Raid for Miramax and director John Dahl (Rounders, Joy Ride, Unforgettable). Fiennes joins Benjamin Bratt (Miss Congeniality, Piñero) and James Franco (Spider-Man) in the World War II action-drama.
The film was inspired by the book The Great Raid on Cabanatuan, written by military historian William B. Breuer, which chronicles the true story of the 1945 raid on a Philippine POW camp. During the raid, Lieutenant Colonel Henry A. Mucci (Bratt) leads a small group of volunteers thirty miles behind enemy lines in order to free 511 POWs from Cabanatuan, a notorious Japanese POW camp where thousands of American prisoners had been brutally tortured and killed. Fiennes will play the highest-ranking officer in the camp.
Carlo Bernard and Doug Miro wrote the original adaptation. The screenplay has since been rewritten by Hossein Amini (Four Feathers, Gangs of New York).
The film will reportedly shoot on location in Queensland, Australia. -- Brian Linder"
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