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Disney and Bruckheimer Acquire Killing Rommel

September 3, 2008

Walt Disney Pictures and Jerry Bruckheimer have acquired screen rights to "Killing Rommel," a novel by Steven Pressfield.

The book, about a British battalion's attempt to thwart German Field Marshal Erwin Rommel's desert campaign, was published in the spring by Doubleday.

Variety says Randall Wallace (Braveheart, Pearl Harbor) will write the script with Pressfield. Bruckheimer will produce.

"Killing Rommel" focuses on the British Long Range Desert Group and its attempt to stop Rommel, the legendary Desert Fox who routed the British in the North African desert in 1942 and threatened to overrun the Middle East thanks to his battlefield strategies and Panzer tanks.

COMMENTS (21)

Posted by:

Stu

September 3, 2008

First!!!
A Disney movie with "KILLING" in the title... Now I've seen everything!

Posted by:

Filmstu2005

September 3, 2008

Sounds boring. I dont think im interested in anything Disney has to offer. They always wanna dumb **** down...

Posted by:

masteryoda007

September 3, 2008

Sounds boring? WTF? War, evil Germans, Brave Brits, Rommel getting his ass handed to him on a plate!

I will be there to see this. Nuff said.

Posted by:

David

September 3, 2008

This will be interesting to see. I'll totally be seeing this film.

It's more likely that Disney will release this film through Touchstone Pictures, though.

Posted by:

Scott Chitwood

September 3, 2008

I actually read this book a couple of months ago. Pretty good - it features a lot of tank action in the desert, cat and mouse chases with Nazis in the desert, etc. It should be good.

Posted by:

Robert

September 3, 2008

Once again, like in the Donald Duck's cartoons during WWII, they'll F***, "Right on Der Fuhrer's Face!" XD

Posted by:

Princess Ariel

September 3, 2008

they dont dumb everything down you moron. Disney just isnt the place for extreme blood and gore or sex to the max. Which Im thankful for because a movie shouldnt revolve around that stuff.

Posted by:

Major Bloodnok

September 3, 2008

This should be good. I'll have to read the book.

But I guess I can toss my script for THE RAT PATROL now...

Posted by:

RicoSuave

September 3, 2008

Hopefully they don't rewrite history like Hollywood did with "U-571" and actually depict the events as they happened.

Posted by:

Jacob

September 3, 2008

Yeah great! everyone will believe, that erwin rommel was the evilness in person. no one will know, that he was involved in the assasination of hitler. my grandparents are friends with manfred rommel, erwin rommels, they told me that rommel wasn't allright with hitlers military meassures in poland and russia. he also wrote hitler a letter in 1944, to end this awful war. if not he will himself capitulate. therefore he was forced to suicide.

but its ok. you all won't change your point of view about us germans. you will allways see us as nazis.