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- Generation Kill Brings War to the Home (Box Office)
  
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- Steven Bochco’s 2005 war drama Over There lasted one season before the plug was pulled. Fox probably got squeamish at the thought of a show getting too close to a war so real and controversial. There have been a glut of books on the current conflict in Iraq and it remains a daily news topic, but TV has kept its distance.David Simon and Ed Burns, the two men who brought us The Wire are venturing into uncharted territoy when they bring the book Generation Kill, by Rolling Stone contributor Evan Wright, to the small screen.The seven part miniseries will follow a band of marines during the opening days of the Iraqi invasion in 2003.Judging from this trailer, this is not going to be Band of Brothers for the next generation. Smart-ass dialogue and issues of the war’s early days will steal the show. Soldiers spending their own money to reinforce their humvees might seem like old news now, but in 2003, Wright was one of the first journalists to bring it to the public’s attention. Simon and Burns seem, for the most part, to be content to stay with the book in spirit, if not totally in content. Several Marines were disciplined and denied promotion after Wright’s articles (in Rolling Stone) and book were published. The reason: Wright quotes the men consistently criticizing their officers and the overall war plan.Simon and Burns appear to follow up on that idea. These Marines are not mindless drones doing their officers’ bidding, but thinking men who do their jobs despite the chaos and disorder of the situation.Rudy Reyes, one of the subjects in Wright’s book, will play himself in the mini-series.Generation Kill is coming to HBO in July.
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