Gerard Butler, Mike Worthington, Matthew McConaughey Team for Iraq War Pic 'Thunder Run'

Getty Images Lather in the beefcake! Gerard Butler, Mike Worthington and Matthew McConaughey are joining up for Thunder Run, an exciting-CG three dimensional action thriller being produced by Freedom Films. Simon West is placed to direct, based on Freedom Films, while Hyde Park Worldwide is handling worldwide sales and starting the title at AFM. The film is adapting the novel Thunder Run- The Armored Strike to Capture Baghdad, by Pulitzer Prize-winning correspondent David Zucchino. Robert Port, who won an Oscar in 2003 for the best short documentary, and Ken Nolan, who co-authored Black Hawk Lower, composed the script. PHOTOS: Hollywood's A-List Changed The project aims to recount the capture of Baghdad by American forces at the beginning of the Iraq War in 2003. The 3-day assault was known like a "lightning strike" or "thunder run." The producers wish to fresh paint "the harrowing picture from the soldiers around the front lines and also the facts of contemporary warfare." The Graphic Film Company continues to be drawn on to make use of proprietary facial-capture technology it utilized on West's approaching Evening from the Living Dead: Roots three dimensional movie together with the motion capture technology utilized in Avatar, stated Freedom Films. Creating are Freedom Films' John Presley, together with the business's Carissa Buffel and Kevin Matusow in addition to Jib Polhemus from the Graphic Film Company. The trio's work will consist mostly of voicework but you will see eco-friendly-screen aspects too. "What we should capture within our cameras is going to be them," Presley told The Hollywood Reporter. "It has a stylized effect into it but we're shooting them. We are not ageing them lower like Shaun Bridges in Tron Legacy, it will be them for 2 hrs inside a highly intense tank fight. "The scope from the movie will feel huge and thegoal would be to attract the Cod world. It will not possess a gaming world feel but to possess a stylized turn to it. "We are locked and loaded and can shoot the coming year.Inch Thunder Run is repped by Gersh with CAA also developing board to repetition the film. Gersh also reps Freedom Films. Butler is repped by CAA and Alan Siegel Entertainment, Worthington by CAA and Anonymous Content, McConaughey by CAA and attorney Kevin Morris. West can also be repped by CAA. Gerard Butler Matthew McConaughey Mike Worthington