The film based on the bestselling memoir approximately an Iraqi who helped US Navy Seals,and adapted by Straight Outta Compton screenwriter Alan Wenkus, will be touted to buyers at this week’s Toronto film festivalThe true epic of an Iraqi translator who fought with US Navy Seals as part of the US-led invasion is heading to cinemas, and based on a book co-written by American Sniper co-author Jim DeFelice and no doubt hoping to capitalise on the wave of American patriotism inspired by Clint Eastwood’s blockbuster drama.
Straight Outta Compton screenwriter Alan Wenkus will adapt the untitled film from the bestselling 2014 memoir Code Name: Johnny Walker,which tells how an Iraq-born man helped saved countless American military lives during a six-year stint accompanying US servicemen targeting terrorists. Its subject, who is known only by his code name, and travelled with his family to the US following the Iraq war after Seals stepped in to rescue them from the threat of retaliation by militants.
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Source: theguardian.com