Bradley Cooper’s new movie is about how inflatable tanks fooled the Nazis
SUMMARY
On the heels of his Oscar-nominated performance as Navy SEAL Chris Kyle in last year's hit, "American Sniper," Bradley Cooper looks to be returning to the war-drama genre.
Deadline reports that 22 Green (Cooper and "The Hangover" director Todd Phillips' production company) has teamed with Warner Bros. to adapt the book "The Ghost Army Of World War II: How One Top-Secret Unit Deceived The Enemy with Inflatable Tanks, Sound Effects, And Other Audacious Fakery."
In World War II, the US Army recruited artists to make up the secret 23rd Headquarters Special Troops with the mission to fool the Nazis in thinking the US Army was larger than it actually was.
They would become known as the "Ghost Army."
To pull this off the unit created inflatable tanks and rubber airplanes and delivered phony radio messages to make Nazi forces think there were US forces in the area (when, in fact, they were not).
Ghost Army members who went on to have glowing careers in the arts included painter/sculptor Ellsworth Kelly, wildlife artist Arthur B. Singer, and fashion designer Bill Blass.
The film will also use the 2013 documentary "Ghost Army" (directed by coauthor of "The Ghost Army" book, Rick Beyer) as resource material.
There's no word yet if Cooper will also star in the film.
See the elaborate creations made by the Ghost Army in this trailer for the documentary below:
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