For years, I have been a great admirer of Joel’s work both in film and television and his commitment and involvement in the development of our project made him integral to this story. His orders were clear: 'Kill or capture HVTNumber 1. Operation Ambush, Iranian codename) were among the last major military operations of the IranIraq War.

Operation Eternal Light, MeKs codename) and Operation Mersad (Persian:, lit. I believe we have found the best actor to play a complex and nuanced character that is John Nixon. Operation Forough Javidan (Persian:, lit. Rodnyansky added: “I am happy and excited for Joel to join Debriefing the President. I couldn’t be more excited to be making this cinematic piece with Alexander Rodnyansky and his talented team of producers.” “It’s a very intelligent character drama where the psychological cat and mouse game between John Nixon and Saddam Hussein will also shed new light on the chaos behind the second Iraq war. “When I received this beautiful adaptation of John Nixon’s memoir, I was immediately thrilled to participate,” said Kinnamen. Bush administration had been so wrong in its reasons for plunging the country into the shock-and-awe origins of an Iraqi occupation. anger after 9/11 and Nixon came away in disbelief that America’s intelligence services and the George W. Hussein had also failed to understand why he had become the focus of U.S. The Iraqi army was the best aggressive military among the Arab armies, Egypt for example, managed to capture 1200 square km in 1973 while Iraq captured 10. Instead of a ruthless despot bent on stockpiling weapons of mass destruction, Hussein had turned his foreign policy decision-making to his lieutenants and seemed more focused on writing a novel. 'Sympathy For The Devil': First Look At Nicolas Cage & Joel Kinnaman In Psychological ThrillerĪfter confirming the prisoner was indeed Hussein, who had a known tribal tattoo on the back of his right hand and a scar from a 1959 bullet wound, Nixon began interrogating Hussein and was surprised by his findings.

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