Tom Hardy and IT‘s Bill Skarsgård have joined a star-studded forged for Vietnam battle film The Things They Carried.
The spectacular line-up additionally consists of Tye Sheridan (Ready Player One), Pete Davidson (The King of Staten Island), Stephen James (If Beale Street Could Talk), Ashton Sanders (Moonlight), Martin Sensmeier (The Magnificent Seven), Moises Arias (Monos) and Angus Cloud (Euphoria).
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The movie, which might be directed by Rupert Sanders (Snow White and the Huntsman), is customized from Tim O’Brien’s e-book of the identical title, which centres on a platoon of younger troopers and their experiences within the Vietnam battle.
Oscar-nominated screenwriter Scott B Smith, who’s working with Westworld creators Jonathan Nolan and Lisa Joy on Amazon’s upcoming sequence The Peripheral, will adapt the e-book for the massive display screen.
An outline for the movie reads: “Trekking from village to village amidst chaos and confusion, the young men struggle to navigate a growing labyrinth of physical, mental, and emotional terrains as they battle for the survival of their sanity, innocence, and each other.” (through Deadline)
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Last month, Skarsgård revealed that he needed to drop out of Robert Eggers’ upcoming movie challenge The Northman – which might have marked his first film look together with his brother Alexander – because of scheduling conflicts attributable to the continued pandemic.
“It’s been a scheduling nightmare during COVID. It is what it is. It’s a big shame, ” he informed Collider.
“Eggers is one of the great filmmakers out there and working with my brother… I don’t want to talk about it, it’s going to make me burst into tears.”
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