![]() ![]() “The original piece was written for WWII, and Wouk included all the pent-up anger in this country over Pearl Harbor,” Friedkin told Deadline. A naval officer stands trial for mutiny for taking command from a ship captain he feels is acting in unstable fashion, endangering both the ship and its crew. ![]() ![]() The original novel, the 1954 film with Humphrey Bogart as Queeg and a Robert Altman-directed 1988 telepic of the play that starred Midnight Run‘s Brad Davis as Queeg were set during World War II. 'Rabbit Hole': Paramount+ Sets Remaining Cast For Kiefer Sutherland Spy Series ![]() The Caine Mutiny Court-Martial is one of the best court-martial dramas ever written.” “But I think about it a lot, and it occurred to me that could be a very timely and important piece, as well as being great drama. “I’ve looked at a lot of scripts in the last 10 years, and I haven’t seen anything I really wanted to do,” said Friedkin, who most recently directed 2011’s stylish noir drama Killer Joe starring Matthew McConaughey. Annabelle Dunne and Matt Parker are producing. It is being plotted for a January start, and casting is just getting underway. Commander Queeg in The Caine Mutiny Court-Martial, using a 50-year-old play script written by Herman Wouk from his Pulitzer Prize-winning novel. and others has found both a script and a star he could not resist. EXCLUSIVE: William Friedkin has been plenty selective in the films he directs, but the heralded helmer of The French Connection, The Exorcist, To Live and Die in L.A. ![]()
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