Alright guys, you know who you have to write to, in order to make sure they get it right. If you want Hollywood to control the story, then don’t say a thing. Or write this guy on his blog, and let him know how you feel. Invariably, Hollywood is going to screw up anything they get their hands on though, and I really am not too motivated about this film.
Even if the writers have the best of intention, the guys with the money are the ones that dictate the narrative. And seeing how Hollywood has completely screwed the pooch with how they have treated the troops and their service in Iraq, I really do not have much faith in this thing. I could be wrong, and these guys might have the intention of producing a quality product that honors the sacrifice of those that died in that company and in the industry, but I doubt it.
On the other hand, Hollywood has been screaming for action in the Sudan, and several actors have mentioned Blackwater as a possible tool to save lives there. But if this film is meant to be another hack job, then I will be disappointed but not really surprised. –Head Jundi
Preliminary poster for Blackwater film.
Blackwater film by Ron Shusett & John Chadwell moving forward
October 25th, 2008
By John Chadwell
For those who might be interested in the progress of mine and Ron Shusett’s screenplay, “Blackwater,” I just wanted to let you know that it’s moving forward, perhaps not as rapidly as we would like it to, but all the same it’s still very much alive.
There has been some reorganization with the producers that is not entirely clear to me, but we’ve been told that there are investors lined up to back a slate of films, including Blackwater, now under the Shusett Productions banner.
Money has been spent and more is being raised, and while I am thrilled to have been commissioned to write a script along with a legend such as Ron Shusett, who penned “Alien,” “Total Recall,” “Above the Law” and the first draft of “Minority Report,” I’ll be even more excited when I see that a director is onboard and the project is moving into production.
While Blackwater the screenplay is moving ever so slowly toward production, Blackwater Worldwide, the company that it is based on, is moving rapidly into new private security territory, as I’ve been tracking here.
I had been joking with mine and Ron’s manager, Tony Ridio and filmmaker Art Camacho, both of whom are associated with Shusett Productions, that perhaps we should start on a sequel about Blackwater going after pirates.
The idea, of course, came from mine and Ron’s other co-writing project, “Hunt of the Sea Wolves,” which is about modern-day pirates who hijack a huge ship carrying natural gas to use it as a weapon of mass destruction. In that story, Special Forces from Homeland Security must stop the pirates-terrorists from carrying out their plot. During my musings I thought Blackwater could be involved in fighting pirates too.
Well, as the news has borne out, that’s exactly what Erik Prince, the founder of Blackwater, has in mind. He has one ship already fitted out and headed to the Gulf of Aden to act as an escort ship. And there’s talk of perhaps three more such ships to hire out as modern-day privateers to go after modern-day pirates in a remarkable instance of history repeating itself as was the case four hundred years ago in the very same waters.
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