The story is based on the works of Pulitzer Prize winning war correspondent Marguerite Higgins, who blazed the trail for female reporters as she covered the conflict’s most historic battles. The film will follow her journey with an American platoon across the peninsula climaxing on Christmas Eve with mass evacuation of 200,000 South Koreans in the face of advancing Chinese and North Korean armies.

Says Cohen, “The Korean War has often been referred to as ‘the forgotten war’ and I think it’s time it was remembered. Telling the story of this harrowing conflict through the eyes of pioneering journalist Marguerite Higgins makes it a very different war film on every level.”

“It’s an awesome chance to see Jet Li surf on a missile and kick Kim Jong Il in the face,” he probably also said. (THR)