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Oliver Stone In Vietnam For My Lai Massacre Film

Oliver Stone In Vietnam For My Lai Massacre Film

American filmmaker Oliver Stone arrived in central Vietnam Wednesday, beginning his 3-day research trip in preparation for his new film about the notorious My Lai Massacre.

“I am very happy to be back in Da Nang,” said Stone, a Vietnam War veteran who served as a sergeant in the 25th Infantry Division 39 years ago, at Da Nang Airport upon his arrival.

Stone said he would visit My Lai to see the “killing fields” for himself.

He said he would stay in Quang Ngai Province for 2 days.

My Lai is a hamlet in Son My village, Quang Ngai Province. Its 504 civilians were slaughtered by soldiers from the US Army’s 11th Brigade on March.16, 1968 in one of the most shameful US misconducts to receive widespread mainstream media attention during the war.

However, Stone added, it was too soon to talk about the film now as it was only in its preparatory stages.

The director seemed to be exhausted after a long flight straight from America and did not answer many questions from reporters at the airport.

Two of his companions, producers John Kilik and Nicholas Simon, set up a short press conference at the airport where Kilik said that Stone wished to call on his old friend Phung Le Ly – author of the memoir When Heaven And Earth Changed Places, which he adapted into the renowned film Heaven And Earth.

Kilik also said Stone hoped to begin shooting the film in Central Vietnam by the year’s end, but that a variety of undecided factors made no plans confirmable.

Oliver Stone is known for such provocative films about the war as Heaven and Earth, Platoon and Born on the Fourth of July, which earned him 2 Best Director Academy Awards.

He also directed such acclaimed films as JFK, Nixon, Alexander and World Trade Center.

His new film, titled Pinkville, got its name from the US Army’s nickname for My Lai, as “pinko” was a derogatory word for communist.

The film will feature Bruce Willis, Channing Tatum and possibly Michael Pena.

Willis will play William R. Peers, the Army general who investigated the My Lai murders that included 182 women, 173 children and 60 elderly.

Tatum will portray Hugh Thompson Jr., an Army helicopter pilot who helped stop the killing by flying between the attackers and the My Lai villagers, rescued several survivors and later testified against the soldiers.

Michael Pena is in talks to play Captain Ernest Medina, the troops’ commanding officer who was held responsible for the massacre by the public. He was charged with the crimes but ultimately found not guilty. Pena appeared in Stone's last film, "World Trade Center."

United Artists is in talks to finance the $40 million project. In the screenplay by Mikko Alanne, the audience pieces together the truth as Peers finds his way through the event's cover-up, in which only one member of the group, Lieutenant William Calley, was convicted of murder and served a mere three and a half years under house arrest. Thanh Nien

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