Preston A. Whitmore II
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As with 1995’s Heat, an obvious reference point, it’s not short on acting talent: Hillcoat can afford to bump off The Walking Dead ’s Norman Reedus – the kind of greasy presence who might have flourished in a Body Count – early on, and later recruit Michael K. Williams (Omar from The Wire ) for a one-scene bit as a crossdressing good-time gal.
(1995 saw a couple of other examples: the Vietnam vet crime drama Dead Presidents from the Hughes Brothers, and Preston A. Whitmore II’s The Walking Dead , about a POW rescue mission.)
They include A Soldier’s Story (1984), adapted from Charles Fuller’s A Soldier’s Play, Glory (1989), The Walking Dead (1995), which starred Eddie Griffin as a mouthy, reluctant soldier in Vietnam alongside Joe Morton, Lee’s Miracle at St. Anna (2008), about black soldiers in the Italian theater of World War II, and Mudbound (2017) from Dee Rees, who studied under Lee at New York University before adapting the story of two soldiers, one black and one white, struggling together to overcome their experiences of fighting in World War I.
With Henry Cavill’s Superman dead, Ben Affleck’s Batman has to convince Gal Gadot’s Wonder Woman to quit laying low and help him recruit the metahumans hinted at in earlier DC movies – the aforementioned Flash, Jason Momoa’s King of Atlantis Aquaman and Ray Fisher’s human-in-a-space-robot-body Cyborg – to help battle Steppenwolf and his legion of rejects from “The Walking Dead.”
You want the black experience in Nam? Go watch Laurence Fishburne in Apocalypse Now.
A former Marine, writer-director Preston A. Whitman II makes his feature debut with "The Walking Dead," which may not be as morally charged as either "Platoon" or "Full Metal Jacket" but is nonetheless effective.