Michael J. Fox starred in a horrifying 1989 war movie about the Vietnam War that took 20 years to make into a film for several vital reasons.
SCREENRANT VIDEO OF THE DAY SCROLL TO CONTINUE WITH CONTENT Summary Casualties of War is a Vietnam War movie based on a horrifyingly true story and starring Michael J. Fox, but the Brian De Palma project was a whole 20 years in the making. Casualties of War is based on a 1969 article from The New Yorker's Daniel Lang that detailed a group of soldiers kidnapping, raping, and murdering an innocent Vietnamese woman in 1966.
Eriksson is the only character who stands his ground in Casualties of War, despite knowing how risky it would be to oppose leadership. Despite its heavy themes and serious tone, Casualties of War is considered one of Michael J. Fox's best movies. Nevertheless, the project took an unusually long time to develop. Finally released in 1989, Brian De Palma had actually been trying to make Casualties of War happen for two decades.
When Lang's original article was published in 1969, the Vietnam War was still ongoing, and an incredibly controversial topic. Nobody else in Hollywood was making movies about it, putting a cinematic adaptation of Casualties of War - which was even more harrowing than the average war movie and daringly portrayed US soldiers in a negative light - out of the question for the next decade or so.
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