Los Angeles: Hollywood ace Phillip Noyce, who is known for his cutting-edge thrillers, has been roped in to direct Alive Day, which accounts a real-life secret military mission in Iraq.
The film is adapted from Samuel Hill's military task-force novel Six Days To Zeus: Alive Day. It follows the true story of Hill, called Chief in the novel, who led a unit of seven men from the Navy Seals, Green Berets, Army Rangers and Marine Recon. They conducted a secret surveillance mission during the Saddam Hussein regime. The film will be made from the screenplay by Kathleen McLaughlin, according to news reports.
Talking about the screenplay, Noyce said: "It is part American Sniper, part Born on the Fourth of July, part Coming Home and part Deer Hunter, but different to all of them in that it has an Agatha Christie whodunit sensibility to it. And that is the accused, Chief, legitimately doesn't know if he's the perpetrator of slaughtering his own men. What really happened and what was unearthed is an unbelievable detective story involving the FBI, and the work that they were doing secretly for the Jordanian government."
"I've previously made reality-based films with Harrison Ford such as Clear and Present Danger and larger than life extreme action thrillers like Salt with Angelina Jolie. In retelling one man's remarkable and uplifting real story, Kathleen McLaughlin's screenplay for Alive Day combines seemingly disparate elements in ways that hopefully all at once reinvent the thriller, war and mystery film genres," he added.