‘The Bourne Supremacy’ and ‘The Bourne Ultimatum’ famed director Paul Greengrass’ latest movie ‘Green Zone’, a story of a team of an army sent in search of weapons of mass destruction to war struck Iraq. The film will be released at the Majestic cinema from April 10.
A thriller set in the chaotic early days of the Iraqi War when no one could be trusted and every decision could detonate unforeseen consequences, the film re-teams Matt Damon with the director Greengrass.
Others joined in the stellar cast are Greg Kinnear, Amy Ryan,Brendan Gleeson, Jason Isaacs and Khalid Abdalla.
During the U.S.-led occupation of Baghdad in 2003, Chief Warrant Officer Roy Miller (Damon) and his team of Army inspectors were dispatched to find weapons of mass destruction believed to be stockpiled in the Iraqi desert. Rocketing from one booby-trapped and treacherous site to the next, the men search for deadly chemical agents but stumble instead upon an elaborate cover-up that inverts the purpose of their mission.
Spun by operatives with intersecting agendas, Miller must hunt through covert and faulty intelligence hidden on foreign soil for answers that will either clear a rogue regime or escalate a war in an unstable region. And at this blistering time and in this combustible place, he will find that the most elusive weapon of all is the truth.
Later, Greengrass read former Washington Post Baghdad bureau chief Rajiv Chandrasekaran’s best-selling nonfiction book “Imperial Life in the Emerald City: Inside Iraq’s Green Zone.”
Influenced by Rajiv Chandrasekaran’s best selling non-fiction book ‘Imperial Life in the Emerald City: Inside Iraq’s Green Zone’.
An assistant managing editor of The Washington Post and currently heading the Post’s continuous news department, Rajiv Chandrasekaran was bureau chief in Baghdad, before, during, and after the war. Chandrasekaran, who reported first hand from Baghdad on the weapons-inspection process, won the Overseas Press Club book Award, the Ron Ridenhour Prize and Britain’s Samuel Johnson Prize, and became a finalist for the National Book Awards. His much-acclaimed book was optioned and served as a revealing window into the surreal world of the Green Zone.
Paul Greengrass even picked up the title ‘Green Zone’ from the book ‘Imperial Life in the Emerald City: Inside Iraq’s Green Zone’.
“While I was investigating into the idea of the hunt for weapons of mass destruction in Iraq which seemed to be a great thriller, I came across Chandrasekaran’s book” said Greengrass.
“I remember reading the first five pages and thinking that he had painted such a perfect picture of The Green Zone - that portion of Baghdad where Saddam had his palaces and where the coalition forces had now established their headquarters.
It was a little oasis surrounded by palaces, swimming pools and guilt that had been taken over by The Administration; but it was also a place of intrigue, danger, conspiracy and faction fighting. So, as soon as I read the book I knew Miller would end up there, and that’s why I called the movie Green Zone” said the director when he was questioned us to how Chandrasekaran’s book helped him to make the film. |
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