Gerard Butler, Mike Worthington, Matthew McConaughey Team for Iraq War Pic 'Thunder Run'

Getty Images Lather within the beefcake! Gerard Butler, Mike Worthington and Matthew McConaughey are joining up for Thunder Run, a thrilling-CG 3d action thriller being created by Freedom Films. Simon West is positioned to direct, according to Freedom Films, while Hyde Park Worldwide is handling worldwide sales and beginning the title at AFM. The film is adapting the novel Thunder Run- The Armored Strike to Capture Baghdad, by Pulitzer Prize-winning correspondent David Zucchino. Robert Port, who won an Oscar in 2003 for top short documentary, and Ken Nolan, who co-written Black Hawk Lower, composed the script. PHOTOS: Hollywood's A-List Transformed The project aims to recount the capture of Baghdad by American forces at the outset of the Iraq War in 2003. The Three-day assault was known just like a "lightning strike" or "thunder run." The producers desire to fresh fresh paint "the harrowing picture in the soldiers round the front lines as well as the details of recent warfare." The Graphic Film Company remains attracted onto take advantage of proprietary facial-capture technology it applied to West's approaching Evening in the Living Dead: Roots 3d movie with the motion capture technology found in Avatar, mentioned Freedom Films. Creating are Freedom Films' John Presley, with the business's Carissa Buffel and Kevin Matusow additionally to Jib Polhemus in the Graphic Film Company. The trio's work will consist mostly of voicework but you will notice eco-friendly-screen aspects too. "That which you capture inside our cameras will probably be them," Presley told The Hollywood Reporter. "It features a stylized effect in it but we are shooting them. We're not ageing them lower like Rob Bridges in Tron Legacy, it will likely be them for just two several hours in the highly intense tank fight. "The scope in the movie will feel huge and thegoal is always to attract the Cod world. It won't have a very gaming world feel but to experience a stylized use it. "We're locked and loaded and may shoot next season.In . Thunder Run is repped by Gersh with CAA also developing board to repetition the film. Gersh also reps Freedom Films. Butler is repped by CAA and Alan Siegel Entertainment, Worthington by CAA and Anonymous Content, McConaughey by CAA and attorney Kevin Morris. West may also be repped by CAA. Gerard Butler Matthew McConaughey Mike Worthington