Ben Affleck In Talks To Direct "Red Platoon"

Ben Affleck In Talks To Direct "Red Platoon" For Sony.


 Yesterday The Tracking Board reported that Ben Affleck is in early talks with Sony to direct "Red Platoon". The movie will be based off a true story about a fire-fight at the Battle of Kamdesh, in Afghanistan. The battle was 14 hours long, and the movie is also based off of the best-selling novel by Clinton Romesha. It happened on October 3rd, 2009 when the Taliban made a large-scale move with about 300 men to Comman Post Keating. The outpost was remote and very difficult to defend, Staff Seargant Romesha led a small band of soldiers to the outpost to try and defend it against the great Taliban force.

Another interesting thing about this movie is that Ben Affleck's brother Casey Affleck is top runner for the lead role. This is interesting to me because Casey Affleck was the lead-role for Ben Affleck's directorial debut "Gone Baby Gone". When Ben was making that movie, he decided it would be best if he wasn't directing and starring in his first movie, so he had his brother play the lead-role. Perhaps it's the same scenario if Ben Affleck does direct Red Platoon, his is know for having a hand in a lot of the behind-the-scenes work, such as writing the screenplay for all of his movies. Also his last movie "Live By Night" wasn't that well received so perhaps he's thinking that he just should take a step back and focus on directing and/or writing the film.

I believe Ben Affleck is one of the best upcoming directors and is a very solid actor as well. My favorite movie of his is "The Town" because I've never been to Boston, but you can feel it's atmosphere the way Affleck directs it. Then his brother Casey is an excellent actor, not too long ago winning the Oscar for best male-led performance in "Manchester By The Sea". If Ben Affleck does sign on to direct, then Red Platoon will be one of my anticipated films for that year because I do enjoy his directing. As always thank you for taking time out of your day to read this blog and please comment and share if you liked this topic I discussed.

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