Thank you for your service -Amy Schumer joins the movie

The Movie

Amy Schumer is moving into drama with the 2016 movie, Thank You For Your Service. She has linkedwith the cast of the motion picture adaptation of David Finkel’s book by the same name. This is a film that has only just began being produced. Jason Hall of American Sniper fame makes his debut as a director on this modifiedscreenplay, in a picture that features the likes of Miles Teller, Joe Cole, Haley Bennett, Beulah Koale, Keisha Castle-Hughes, Scott Haze, Brad Beyer, Omar Dorseyand Jayson Warner Smith.

The screenplay for American Sniper highlighted the kind of merciless impact that post-traumatic stress disorder can have on a person. Thank You For Your Service, on the other hand,brings to everyone’s attention a risingproblem of nationwide concern. This film is about a group of American soldiers who return home from the Iraq war. These soldiers face a battle to assimilate back into domestic and civilian life, at the same time living with the recollection of a war that loomsand seeks toput an end to them long after they have left the actual combat zone.

Production of this picture is ongoing in Atlanta on the film edition of David Finkel’s book,which was publishedby Sarah Crichton Booksback in 2013.

Universal will distribute Thank You For Your Service in the United States and a few other international regions. Mister Smith Entertainment will distribute the film in Europe, in Africa and in the Middle East. Reliance, a partner of DreamWorks, will distribute the film in India while another DreamWorks partner, Entertainment One,will premiere the film in the United Kingdom, the Netherlands, Belgium, Luxembourg, Australia and New Zealand.

The Book

Thank You for Your Service is the non-fiction sequel book to The Good Soldiers, which accounts the ins and outs of the 2-16 Infantry Battalion in Iraq between 2007 and 2008. In this follow-up, David Finkel scrutinizes the lives the soldiers led back home in mainland US as they fight to readapt to life outside the combat zone; civilian and family life. The book was a contender for the National Book Critics Circle Award.

No writer has seen and felt the consciousness of war as closely as David Finkel has. In his book The Good Soldiers, David Finkel followed the soldiers of the 2-16 Infantry Battalion while they were in Baghdad, taking part in the overly arduous fifteen-month battle that transformed every single one of them forever. Finkel then shadowed many of the very same soldiers as they came back home to the US and fought to get back in the swing of things.

In the book Thank You for Your Service, David Finkel writes with marvellous benevolence not only regarding the soldiers but regarding their families; wives and children.

David Finkel’s work is much more than a work of reporting. Thank You for Your Service, the book and the movie, is mostly about understanding. The book will shock readers but will definitely captivate you. The story is undaunted but intensely humane, it takes you into the minds of the brave, brave soldiers who must live the duration of their lives with the consequences of war.