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Iraq-based Movies to Hit the Screens

The War on Iraq has been an on going political situation since the terrorist attacks on the US in late 2001. However, the War will soon be seen in the entertainment world as a big Hollywood movie. There have been several Iraq war-based movie ideas in recent years inclduing the movie Jarhead, which was released late 2005. Ron Howard, who made A Beautiful Mind and Apollo 13, will direct Last Man Home, about a soldier missing in the country, said Hollywood newspaper Daily Variety.

The film is set in Iraq days before the US-led invasion in 2003, while the soldier disappeared during the Gulf War conflict some 13 years earlier. A number of Iraq-based films have recently been made, including Jarhead. Actor Samuel L Jackson has also been lined up for another film based on the conflict in the Middle Eastern country, playing an army medic dealing with the aftermath of a tour of duty in Iraq.

Harrison Ford is currently filming No True Glory: The Battle For Fallujah, while Stop-Loss, the story of a soldier who refuses to return to his duties in Iraq, is also in the pipeline. Overall, it seems like the entertainment industry is about to get attacked by the never ending conflict in Iraq. Hopefully, all political statements to be made in these films will make more sense then the leader of the free world.