Ang Lee may direct a satire of the Iraq War
Prolific director Ang Lee may have found his next prestige project: an adaptation of Ben Fountain’s Billy Lynn’s Long Halftime Walk. The 2012 book follows Lynn and the rest of his company as they survive a heated firefight in Iraq. A video of them goes viral, and they become so famous that the Bush administration brings them home for a two-week goodwill tour. The action culminates, as all action should, during a Thanksgiving halftime performance by Destiny’s Child at a Cowboys-Bears game. And if the satire of America’s wartime pageantry doesn’t ensure audiences turn out to the movie, the possibility of seeing Beyoncé—or some lady who looks like Beyoncé—surely will.