Spielberg and Day-Lewis May Reteam for THANK YOU FOR YOUR SERVICE

Lincoln director Steven Spielberg is looking at possibly reteaming with Daniel Day-Lewis for a new film called Thank You For Your Service. 

The film is based on an upcoming book of the same name, which tells the story of soldiers who are dealing with Post Traumatic Stress Disorder following their wartime experiences in Iraq and Afghanistan. 

The news comes from Deadline who says that Jason Hall is lined up to write the script for the film. This is the same screenwriter who wrote Spielberg's next project American Sniper, which stars Bradley Cooper. That film is based on the memoir of the late Chris Kyle, who came to record the highest number of sniper kills for an American.

The report says that Service is just a "potential reteam" for Spielberg and Day-Lewis, so there's still a chance it might not happen. If they do team up, I have no doubt that they will deliver an incredible and powerful film. I'd love to see these two talents work together again. 

Here's the description of the book:

No journalist has reckoned with the psychology of war as intimately as David Finkel. In The Good Soldiers, his bestselling account from the front lines of Baghdad, Finkel shadowed the men of the 2-16 Infantry Battalion as they carried out the infamous surge, a grueling fifteen-month tour that changed all of them forever. Now Finkel has followed many of those same men as they’ve returned home and struggled to reintegrate—both into their family lives and into American society at large.

In the ironically named Thank You for Your Service, Finkel writes with tremendous compassion not just about the soldiers but about their wives and children. Where do soldiers belong after their homecoming? Is it possible, or even reasonable, to expect them to rejoin their communities as if nothing has happened? And in moments of hardship, who are soldiers expected to turn to if they feel alienated by the world they once lived in? These are the questions Finkel faces as he revisits the brave but shaken men of the 2-16.

More than a work of journalism, Thank You for Your Service is an act of understanding—shocking but always riveting, unflinching but deeply humane, it takes us inside the heads of those who must live the rest of their lives with the chilling realities of war.