"‘Overlord’ Could Be Tied into Bad Robot and Paramount " Topic

…Pictures' "Clover-verse".

"… we have word that Overlord will be adding Jovan Adepo (Fences) and Wyatt Russell (22 Jump Street) as the leads of the mysterious film. Directed by Julius Avery (Son of a Gun) and scripted by Billy Ray (Captain Phillips) and Mark L. Smith (The Revenant), Overlord will follow a group of American paratroopers dropped behind enemy lines on the eve of D-Day. On the approach to their target–a village under Nazi occupation–they start to realize there there's more to this place than a military operation Overlord sounds like a straight-up wartime drama with a "mystery box" twist, and it's that latter part which is in lockstep with Abrams' brand. Producing alongside Abrams…"
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They are also known for their misdirects and might have nothing do to with the Normandy invasion at all.

I just hope, if it is as advertised, that the "more than a military operation" isnt some sort of zombie soldier or sci-fi twist.

I hope you are right, Mark, and it has nothing to do with Normandy landings. Otherwise I don't know how they will justify including an Afro-American actor as part of the cast, acting the part of a paratrooper. I know there was an all-black soldiers paratrooper battalion, the 555th, but it never served overseas; and in June 1944 US Army was still segregated. We'll see how they justify it.