IONCINEMA.com presents: They Marched Into Sunlight (0)

CAST AND CREW

Director

Paul Greengrass

They Marched Into Sunlight

Release Date: Unspecified Release - Wide Release
Distributor: Universal Pictures
Film Genre: War, Political Drama
Country: United States

An adaptation of the Vietnam War-era book (They Marched Into Sunlight: War and Peace Vietnam and America) by the Pulitzer Prize-winning David Maraniss, They Marched Into Sunlight is the epic story of Vietnam and thesixties told through the events of a few tumultuous days in October 1967. The unforgettable journey to the battlefields of war and peace weaves together three very different worlds of that time: the death and heroism of soldiers in Vietnam, the anger and anxiety of antiwar students back home, and the confusion and obfuscating behavior of officials in Washington. In the Long Nguyen Secret Zone of Vietnam, a renowned battalion of the First Infantry Division is marching into a devastating ambush that will leave sixty-one soldiers dead and an equal number wounded. On the University of Wisconsin campus in Madison, students are staging an obstructive protest at the Commerce Building against recruiters for Dow Chemical Company, makers of napalm and Agent Orange, that ends in a bloody confrontation with club-wielding Madison police. And in Washington, President Lyndon Johnson is dealing with pressures closing in on him from all sides and lamenting to his war council, "How are we ever going to win?"

TRIVIA

Greengrass directed The Bourne Surpremacy.

MOVIE NEWS ITEMS

2005-02-01
Variety reports that Paul Greengrass will write and direct the project for Universal Pictures.

2003-10-22
The Hollywood Reporter reports that Tom Hanks and Gary Goetzman's Playtone Prods. has optioned the feature film rights to the book.