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Genre War drama Based on Generation Kill by Evan Wright Written by David Simon Ed Burns Evan Wright Directed by Susanna White Simon Cellan Jones Starring Alexander Skarsgård James Ransone Lee Tergesen Jon Huertas Stark Sands Billy Lush Jonah Lotan Wilson Bethel Pawel Szajda Marc Menchaca Rey Valentin Kellan Lutz Mike Figueroa Josh Barrett Rudy Reyes Rich McDonald Eric Ladin Chance Kelly Eric Nenninger Brian Patrick Wade Neal Jones Michael Kelly David Barrera Benjamin Busch Owain Yeoman J. Salome Martinez Nabil Elouahabi Robert John Burke Country of origin United States Original language English No. of episodes 7 Production Producer Andrea Calderwood Production locations Mozambique Namibia Upington, South Africa Kragbron, South Africa Cinematography Ivan Strasburg Editors Jason Krasucki Oral Norrie Ottey Running time 63–69 minutes Production companies Company Pictures Blown Deadline Productions Budget $56 million[1] Original release Network HBO Release July 13 – August 24, 2008
Based on Evan Wright's National Magazine Award-winning story in Rolling Stone, this is the raw, firsthand account of the 2003 Iraq invasion that inspired the HBO® original mini-series. Within hours of 9/11, America’s war on terrorism fell to those like the twenty-three Marines of the First Recon Battalion, the first generation dispatched into open-ended combat since Vietnam. They were a new pop-culture breed of American warrior unrecognizable to their forebears—soldiers raised on hip hop, video games and The Real World. Cocky, brave, headstrong, wary and mostly unprepared for the physical, emotional and moral horrors ahead, the “First Suicide Battalion” would spearhead the blitzkrieg on Iraq, and fight against the hardest resistance Saddam had to offer. Hailed as “one of the best books to come out of the Iraq war”(Financial Times), Generation Kill is the funny, frightening, and profane firsthand account of these remarkable men, of the personal toll of victory, and of the randomness, brutality and camaraderie of a new American War.
Evan Alan Wright (December 12, 1964 – July 12, 2024) was an American writer, known for his reporting on subcultures for Rolling Stone and Vanity Fair.[1] He was best known for his book on the Iraq War, Generation Kill (2004). He also wrote an exposé about a top CIA officer who allegedly worked as a Mafia hitman, How to Get Away with Murder in America (2012).[2] Although some compare his writings to those of Hunter S. Thompson, Wright claimed his biggest literary influences were authors Mark Twain and Christopher Isherwood.[3] The New York Times called his military writing "nuanced and grounded in details often overlooked in daily journalistic accounts" and noted his use of "gallows humor".
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Alexander Skarsgård as Sergeant Brad "Iceman" Colbert in "Generation Kill" (2008) Photo Credit: HBO
James Ransone as Corporal Josh Ray Person in "Generation Kill" (2008) Photo Credit: HBO
Jonah Lotan, Alexander Skarsgård, and Lee Tergesen in "Generation Kill" (2008) Photo Credit: HBO
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