{"id":29,"date":"2004-12-23T14:02:00","date_gmt":"2004-12-23T21:02:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/art-for-a-change.com\/blog\/?p=29"},"modified":"2022-09-29T16:02:47","modified_gmt":"2022-09-29T23:02:47","slug":"indiana-jones-liberates-fallujah","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/art-for-a-change.com\/blog\/2004\/12\/indiana-jones-liberates-fallujah.html","title":{"rendered":"Indiana Jones Liberates Fallujah"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Meanwhile in the pop culture department, the Hollywood Dream machine has joined the war on Iraq. Universal Pictures has announced it will produce <a href=\"http:\/\/www.movieinsider.com\/m2237\/battle-for-fallujah\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>No True Glory: Battle for Fallujah<\/em><\/a> starring Harrison Ford. No, I\u2019m not kidding.<\/p>\n<p>The film will be based on the yet unfinished book <em>No True Glory: The Battle for Fallujah<\/em> by former marine and now embedded reporter, Bing West. Harrison Ford, who of course played the ridiculously macho Indiana Jones in the <em>Raiders of the Lost Ark<\/em> series, gets to play General Jim Mattis, leader of the US assault on Fallujah. The film is slated for release in 2008.<\/p>\n<p>It sounds as if Universal is trying to outdo John Wayne\u2019s 1968 Vietnam war propaganda classic, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=01T3VcN-TbA\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Green Berets<\/a>. If my memory serves me well, the US didn\u2019t win that war.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ffcc00;\"><strong>UPDATE:<\/strong><\/span> As of 2022, the film remains unmade.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Meanwhile in the pop culture department, the Hollywood Dream machine has joined the war on Iraq. Universal Pictures has announced it will produce No True Glory: Battle for Fallujah starring Harrison Ford. No, I\u2019m not kidding. The film will be based on the yet unfinished book No True Glory: The Battle for Fallujah by former marine and now embedded reporter,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_kadence_starter_templates_imported_post":false,"_kad_post_transparent":"","_kad_post_title":"","_kad_post_layout":"","_kad_post_sidebar_id":"","_kad_post_content_style":"","_kad_post_vertical_padding":"","_kad_post_feature":"","_kad_post_feature_position":"","_kad_post_header":false,"_kad_post_footer":false,"_kad_post_classname":"","wds_primary_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-29","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hollywood-dream-machine"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/art-for-a-change.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/art-for-a-change.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/art-for-a-change.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/art-for-a-change.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/art-for-a-change.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/art-for-a-change.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/art-for-a-change.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/art-for-a-change.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/art-for-a-change.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}