Miles Teller To Join PTSD War Film THANK YOU FOR YOUR SERVICE
Thank You For Your Service is a film project that has been in development for a couple of years. It’s a PTSD war drama that will be directed by American Sniper screenwriter Jason Hall. This will be Hall’s first feature film. Back in 2013, Steven Spielberg was looking to direct it with Daniel Day-Lewis from a script Hall wrote for it at the time.
Now according to The Wrap, Fantastic Four star Miles Teller is in talks to join the film. Teller is a great actor. Unfortunately doing Fantastic Four probably wasn’t the best choice to make. But I’m sure he’ll bounce back from it just fine.
The movie is based on a book of the same name, and the story follows three U.S. soldiers who return from Iraq and struggle to integrate back into their civilian lives with their families since they are still haunted by the horrific memories of war.
According to The Wrap, “Insiders suggest that Teller has been determined to tackle more serious material as he tries to move on from the media surrounding Fantastic Four and get back to focusing on work.” That’s definitely a smart move.
Teller has several projects coming out that will make people forget about Fantastic Four. Those projects include Todd Phillips’ Arms and the Dudes with Jonah Hill, the boxing drama Bleed For This in which he plays Vinny Pazienza, and he’s also set to star in Marc Webb’s The Only Living Boy in New York with Jeff Bridges and Rosamund Pike.
Thank You For Your Service seems like a great fit for the rising talent, and it will give him the opportunity to improve more on his skills as an actor.
This is the official description of the book:
The wars of the past decade have been covered by brave and talented reporters, but none has reckoned with the psychology of these wars as intimately as the Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist David Finkel. For The Good Soldiers, his bestselling account from the front lines of Baghdad, Finkel embedded with the men of the 2-16 Infantry Battalion during the infamous "surge," a grueling fifteen-month tour that changed them all forever. In Finkel's hands, readers can feel what these young men were experiencing, and his harrowing story instantly became a classic in the literature of modern war.
In Thank You for Your Service, Finkel has done something even more extraordinary. Once again, he has embedded with some of the men of the 2-16--but this time he has done it at home, here in the States, after their deployments have ended. He is with them in their most intimate, painful, and hopeful moments as they try to recover, and in doing so, he creates an indelible, essential portrait of what life after war is like--not just for these soldiers, but for their wives, widows, children, and friends, and for the professionals who are truly trying, and to a great degree failing, to undo the damage that has been done.
The story Finkel tells is mesmerizing, impossible to put down. With his unparalleled ability to report a story, he climbs into the hearts and minds of those he writes about. Thank You for Your Service is an act of understanding, and it offers a more complete picture than we have ever had of these two essential questions: When we ask young men and women to go to war, what are we asking of them? And when they return, what are we thanking them for?