Tommy Lee Jones and Alec Baldwin ready to Shock and Awe

Tommy Lee Jones and Alec Baldwin are in talks to join Woody Harrelson in Rob Reiner’s Iraq war movie Shock and Awe.
Harrelson entered negotiations to reteam with Reiner and screenwriter Joey Hartstone earlier this week (begs11Jul16), after the trio recently wrapped work on LBJ, a new biopic chronicling the rise of former U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson.
Reiner has been developing the movie for years, and now the politically-charged project is gathering pace, with Jones and Baldwin both interested in boarding the film.
Resident Evil star Milla Jovovich is also working on a deal to join the cast, which already includes James Marsden, according to Deadline.com.
Shock and Awe focuses on a group of journalists who repeatedly questioned U.S. President George W. Bush’s administration about late dictator Saddam Hussein’s alleged stash of weapons of mass destruction, which officials used to justify their invasion of Iraq in 2003. No substantial evidence of WMDs was found after the war.
The film is named after the bombing campaign employed by the U.S. military at the start of the Iraq war.
Reiner is planning to move Shock and Awe into production later this year (16). He will produce the movie alongside Matthew George and his wife, Michele Reiner.
If both Woody and Tommy Lee sign on, it will mark their fourth onscreen collaboration after previously working together on Natural Born Killers in 1994, A Prairie Home Companion in 2006, and No Country for Old Men in 2007.
Jones is no stranger to Iraq war films after appearing in director Paul Haggis’ 2007 release In the Valley of Elah.