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Ahead of AFM, Tye Sheridan (“Mud”), Tom Hardy (“Mad Max : Fury Road”), Stephan James (“If Beale Street Could Talk”), Bill Skarsgard (“It”), and Pete Davidson (“Saturday Night Live”) have boarded the Rupert Sanders (“Snow White and the Huntsman”) directed vietnam war movie “The Things They Carried”.
Per Deadline, Ashton Sanders (”Moonlight”), Martin Sensmeier (”The Magnificent Seven”), Moises Arias (”Monos”), and Angus Cloud (”Euphoria”) have also been cast.
The film is based on Jim O’Brien’s acclaimed collection of stories about a platoon of young soldiers and their experiences on the front lines during the Vietnam War.
Oscar-nominated screenwriter Scott B. Smith (”A Simple Plan”) wrote the film, which MadRiver will rep at this year’s virtual buyers market.
Sanders, who most recently directed Apple TV+’s upcoming drama series “Foundation”, said: “The Things They Carried is a beautifully crafted work and one of the most viscerally evocative books I have ever read. For me, it transcends its subject of young men at war and explores the landscape of deep human emotions that reside within all of us. We live in such turbulent times, and the themes of love, fear, and mortality that Tim explored thirty years ago still resonate today, maybe even more powerfully. I am so excited about the cast we have put together – we have not seen this many young stars from different backgrounds sharing the screen since the days of Platoon or The Outsiders.”
