I wasn't aware of this until the other day, but Brad Pitt is starring in another World War II movie directed by David Ayer called
Fury. It's about the crew of a M4 Sherman fighting against the Germans near the end of the European Theater of the war. Besides Pitt, the cast list is pretty impressive: Shia LaBeouf (the guy from the
Transformers movies), Logan Lerman (
Percy Jackson movies), Michael Peña (
End of Watch,
Gangster Squad,
Shooter), Jason Isaacs (Lucius Malfoy in the
Harry Potter movies and has done a couple of war movies such as
Black Hawk Down and
Wind Talkers), and Jon Bernthal from The Walking Dead.
The last WWII movie Brad Pitt did, The Inglorious Basterds, was pretty damn good, so there's hope that this one will at least be a good popcorn movie. I have this feeling that it probably won't be hugely accurate, but what war movie has ever been dead-on? Honestly, I don't care too much about strict accuracy in war movies. As long as a movie doesn't include anything absurd and blatantly inaccurate (aside from like comedies), I'll probably enjoy it.
On the other hand, Fury is only the fifth movie David Ayer has directed and the first war movie; all of this previous movies have been crime and cop dramas. He also wrote the script for
U-751, which was based on the capture of that German u-boat and its Enigma Machine. Unfortunately, in the movie, he altered history by having an American submarine crew in place of the British crew who had actually captured the u-boat. He also wrote
The Fast & The Furious, so take that as you will.
I guess we'll just have to wait until the first trailer comes out before we'll have any idea of whether it'll suck or not.
