Director Steven Spielberg's World War II tour de force chronicles the journey of a GI squad on a dangerous mission behind enemy lines. Led by Captain John Miller (Tom Hanks), the unit is under orders to track down a soldier, Private Ryan (Matt Damon), so he might return home to his mother in America, where she is grieving the .. Read more
| Starring | Tom Hanks, Edward Burns, Tom Sizemore, Matt Damon |
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| Director | Steven Spielberg |
| Genres | Action/Adventure, Drama |
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Steven Spielberg is teaming up with Billy Elliott writer Lee Hall to take a World War I novel to the big screen. The Hollywood icon has bought the rights to Michael Morpurgo's 1982 book Warhorse, which follows the relationship between a boy and his horse in the backdrop of the Great War. Spielberg has recruited Hall to adapt the book for Hollywood, and he will produce the project. It is unknown if he will also direct. The filmmaker, who tackled World War II in Saving Private Ryan and Band of... Read more
Matt Damon has turned down a string of movie roles because he refuses to act in films with excessive violence. The Hollywood actor has starred in a number of high action movies including Saving Private Ryan and the Bourne trilogy. But Damon has rejected a number of scripts which include gratuitous fighting - because he's worried it may affect people's real-life actions. He says, "I always look at the violence (in a script). I don't want it to be gratuitous because I do believe that has an... Read more
It's been a long, long time since Indiana Jones last threw his hat into in the ring and rode off into the sunset. Nearly 20 years in fact. Long enough for George Lucas to make three more Star Wars episodes and Steven Spielberg to put his name to three Jurassic Park movies, Schindler's List, Saving Private Ryan, AI, War of the Worlds and Munich, to name but a few. Hard to imagine either man needed to resurrect the archeologist adventurer certainly not financially. Creatively? It seems unlikely. Read more
Dreamworks grand fromage Steven Spielberg has personally led the company's bid to acquire the rights to Japanese magna classic Ghost In The Shell and the legendary Jaws director now plans to turn it into a 3-D live-action thriller, according to reports. Showbiz newspaper Variety says Spielberg, whose other credits include cinema classics ET, Saving Private Ryan and Schindler's List, saw to it that his production company secured the rights to the project over rivals Sony and Universal. Ghost In... Read more
Trench warfare has inspired generations of filmmakers. Whether used as a vehicle for a director's universal anti-war message (The Trench) or simply to honour the stoicism of the Allied Forces in WWI (Legends of the Fall), the location is charged with historical signifcance. That hasn't stopped a few bringing comedy to the trenches, though. We Our Top Picks Blackadder Goes Forth (1989) Famous for its satirical plot twists and comical caricatures, Ben Elton and Richard Curtis’ comedy took... Read more
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