Australian filmmaker Phillip Noyce (“Clear and Present Danger,” “The Quiet American”) is set to direct “Alive Day,” a film adaptation of Samuel Hill’s military taskforce novel “Six Days to Zeus: Alive Day” for Phoenix Pictures and Voyage Media.
Samuel ‘Chief’ Hill led a unit comprised of seven men from the Navy Seals, Green Berets, Army Rangers and Marine Recon who were conducting secret surveillance during the Saddam Hussein regime – operating in the Iraqi desert near the Jordanian border in 2003.
Team members would enter Baghdad, sometimes disguised in burkas or hiding in sanitary trucks. A horrific explosion ultimately killed all the unit’s members except Chief who barely survived. The truth of that is a detective story involving the FBI and the work that they were doing secretly for the Jordanian government.
Kathleen McLaughlin penned the script while Mike Medavoy and Nat Mundel will produce. Noyce says the film is a blend of other gamed military movies like “Born on the Fourth of July,” “Coming Home” and “Deer Hunter” with an ‘Agatha Christie whodunit sensibility’.
Noyce plans to have physical production ready to go on “Alive Day” once it’s safe to do so post the COVID-19 climate.
Source: Deadline
