Chris McQuarrie 's No mans land

Citation :: McQuarrie Goes To No Man's Land
Date: May 22, 2007

By: Kellvin Chavez
Source: Variety

After co-writing the WWII drama "Valkyrie," Chris McQuarrie has turned to writing the WWI drama "No Man's Land." The battlefield drama is being mounted as a co-production between 2929 Prods. and Spitfire Pictures, and the film will be financed by 2929 Entertainment partners Todd Wagner and Mark Cuban.

According to Variety, "No Man's Land" will be a much larger-budget undertaking, and it is likely that Spitfire will arrange some of the coin through offshore presales.

"No Man's Land" will use three fictional characters to illustrate the complex reasons why the various European powers chose sides to fight WWI, and how the use of machine guns, tanks and other technology led to unimaginable carnage.

The drama will focus on three characters: an American ambulance driver in France who joins the French Foreign Legion and eventually fights for the Americans when the U.S. enters the war; a British soldier wrongly accused of cowardice; and a German soldier mired in the trenches.

The project was hatched from an idea by Spitfire's Sinclair, who initially engaged scribe Larry Ramin. McQuarrie, a WWI buff, took the story and has transformed it into an epic-sized undertaking he hopes will follow in the tradition of "All Quiet on the Western Front," "Gallipoli" and "Paths of Glory."

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