A set piece would be when the 5th and 7th Marines, including 600 wounded walking with the help of ice-glazed tree limbs, march into Hagaru. They had fought their way there over fourteen miles for four days and three sleepless nights. Their comrades gather on the surrounding hills to greet the arrival of their comrades who were covered with ice and stubble. At 600 yards from the perimeter, the column stops. The wounded and frost bitten who could walk, crawled out of their trucks and fell in line with their comrades, their boots stomping the snow in perfect cadence. In the snow. As the column enters the perimeter, some grunts join them, marching along side the column “From the Halls of Montezuma…”They began singing “…To the shores of Tripoli…” It is the Marines Hymn. “…We will fight our nation’s battles…” Rugged veterans were brought to tears. “Look at those bastards,” they say. “Those magnificent bastards.”
It is called Chipyong-ni It is an Epic War Drama In the vein of The Siege of Jadotville It is like Top Gun: Maverick meets 12 Strong It follows populist career officer Paul L. Freeman, Jr And sixty-year-old French socialist Ralph Monclar As they seek to stop the Communist Chinese advance into South Korea and …
It is called The Battle of Chipyong-ni
It is a War Action Drama.
In the vein of Lone Survivor
It is like We Were Soldiers meets Fury.
It follows tenacious but fair-minded General Matthew Ridgway
And cunning yet encouraging Lieutenant James P. Mitchell
As they seek to rebuild the spirits of the US Army and find the position of the Chinese army, and determine its strength, numbers and movements.
Problems arise when Mitchell’s company loses its radio and then is cutoff and surrounded by Communist Chinese
Now together Ridgway’s generalship and Mitchell’s leadership will rescue his company at the last minute and find the enemy’s location.
The idea came to me when reading Leo Barron’s High Tide In the Korean War where he writes that the course and events of the battle would make a great movie.
My unique approach would be showing every act of valor during the battle that resulted in a medal, cross or star.
A set piece would be when Mitchell and his company begin running low on ammunition as casualties mount. Despite American planes dropping bombs and napalm on the Chinese, the enemy continues to attack. Mitchell orders the wounded not to moan or cry out when hit so the enemy cannot determine the company’s undermanned strength. Then an airplane drops a streamer with the message that help is on the way. Mitchell crawls around the perimeter, skinning his knees across the hard, icy surface of the hill, streamer in hand. He goes to each man on the line, tells him the encouraging news, then moves onto the next man to lift his spirits.
Target audiences would be military servicemen and women, military veterans, history buffs, South Koreans, Korean War veterans and their families, Korean Americans, fans of video games like Medal of Honor, Battlefield and Call of Duty, fans of Top Gun: Maverick, and men and women (teens to 60s).
Audiences would want to see it in theaters due to the themes of courage, devotion, resilience and determination during a last stand, the excitement and adventure of battle, and honoring veterans and their fallen comrades of a “forgotten” war.