Author Steven Pressfield is set to have a third novel adapted into a screenplay. With The Legend of Baggar Vance released in 2000 and Universal still developing his novel Gates of Fire (the Spartan tale of Thermopylae), Variety reports that Disney and producer Jerry Bruckheimer have optioned the big screen rights to his WWII novel Killing Rommel. Screenwriter-director Randall Wallace (Braveheart, We Were Soldiers) will pen the screenplay while Jerry is set to produce. The novel was released last Spring by Doubleday.
Plot Concept: "Killing Rommel" focuses on the British Long Range Desert Group and its attempt to stop German Field Marshal Erwin 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.
There's more information at Steven's official website for the novel and a couple of videos. I'll place one down below with the author talking about the subject.
It certainly looks like it Whiskey but if its good I'll go see them. It was interesting to learn that Universal is trying to adapt the 300 story that has already been told...yeah, I know this one would probably be more correct on history side of it but I don't know how successful another version of 300 will be.
Bring them on. I'll go see any WWII movie and I hope they do make Gates of Fire.
Now I thought 300 was cool, but that's all it was. I'm ready for some live action scenes that take place in the real world without all this green screen crap and they fight real men not these monsters. Realism all the way. Bring them on.
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