Success Of Navy SEAL Movies Has Hollywood Looking For More -- FOX News
LOS ANGELES – Following the box office success of “Lone Survivor,” based off Marcus Luttrell’s 2007 best-seller of the same name about the tragic 2005 Operation Red Wings in Afghanistan, studios are looking for more real-life accounts of SEALs to turn into big budget movies.
A film adaptation of “American Sniper,” a memoir by the highly decorated Navy SEAL Chris Kyle, who was killed last year after it's publication, was acquired by Warner Bros. Clint Eastwood is attached as director.
Sources tell FOX411 that Steven Spielberg, who was first attached to direct Kyle's story, as well as Michael Bay, have also been looking at similar projects involving military memoirs.
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My Comment: I predict that this fascination from Hollywood on the US Navy Seals will not last long .... military life is as "foreign" to them as Hollywood is "foreign" for most US Navy SEALs.
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