Green Zone (2010) Movie Overview

Green Zone is an upcoming action thriller war film written by Brian Helgeland and directed by Paul Greengrass. The film is based on the 2006 book Imperial Life in the Emerald City by journalist Rajiv Chandrasekaran which is based in Green Zone, Baghdad. It stars Matt Damon, Amy Ryan, Greg Kinnear, and Brendan Gleeson. Production began in January 2008 in Spain and moved on to Morocco. The film is scheduled to be released on March 12, 2010. Green Zone is a thriller that takes place in the Green Zone in Iraq before the surge by the United States. In January 2007, after completing The Bourne Ultimatum, director Paul Greengrass announced his intent to adapt a film of the 2006 non-fiction book Imperial Life in the Emerald City by Rajiv Chandrasekaran, a journalist for The Washington Post. Greengrass wrote a script based on the book, working with researchers Kate Solomon and Michael Bronner, who helped the director research for United 93 (2006). The script was reported to be developed more in advance than the script for The Bourne Ultimatum, which had undergone changes during production. Screenwriter Tom Stoppard was originally requested to write the script for Greengrass, but because Sto… Source

• Green Zone Movie Details
• Director: Paul Greengrass
• Official Sites: Official site [jp], Universal [us]
• Tagline: Chief Warrant Officer Roy Miller is done following orders
• Country: France , USA , Spain , UK
• Run Time: 115 min
• Genre: Action , Drama , Thriller , War

• Cast Overview
• Yigal Naor as Al Rawi (as Igal Naor)
• Said Faraj as Seyyed Hamza
• Faycal Attougui as Al Rawi Bodyguard (as Faical Attougui)
• Aymen Hamdouchi as Ayad Hamza
• Matt Damon as Miller
• Nicoye Banks as Perry

Green Zone Movie Overview – Yahoo Movies

Green Zone (2010): Chief Warrant Officer Roy Miller is a rogue U.S. Army officer who must hunt through covert and faulty intelligence hidden on foreign soil before war escalates in an unstable region. Source

Green Zone Movie Review from New York Times

United 93 director Paul Greengrass explores the aftermath of the Iraq invasion in this feature adaptation of author Rajiv Chandrasekaran’s literary exposé of the same name. A one-time Baghdad bureau chief of the Washington Post, Chandrasekaran was present as American forces attempted to set up a provisional government on the grounds surrounding fo… Source

Green Zone Movie Details from Imdb

I went into the screening of this film in Manhattan this evening (03/03/10) and I must say, I went with low expectations. I am not a Paul Greengrass fan and I especially am not a fan of documentary-style film-making in big budget motion pictures (I feel its lazy).BUT: This is a film I was impressed with and walking out of the Lincoln Square AMC, I… Source

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