Christopher McQuarrie Goes from WWII to WWI with No Man’s Land

I’m an unabashed fan of Christopher McQuarrie, even though the guy really hasn’t do a whole lot since, well, 2000’s “Way of the Gun”. And his other big claim to fame was co-writing “The Usual Suspects” with Bryan Singer. Other than that? Not a whole lot from Mr. McQuarrie. But hey, I still love the guy’s work, and “Way of the Gun” is, bar none, my favorite crime film. Let’s put it this way: if you don’t like “Way of the Gun”, you’re just not very cool. Anyways, Christopher’s next film according to Variety is writing the World War I drama “No Man’s Land”, which he will be tackling after coming off the World War II drama “Valkyrie”. Once the script for “Land” is done, McQuarrie still has “The Stanford Prison Experiment” to direct.

“No Man’s Land” will use three fictional characters to illustrate the complex reasons why the various European powers chose sides to fight WWI, and how the use of machine guns, tanks and other technology led to unimaginable carnage.

The drama will focus on three characters: an American ambulance driver in France who joins the French Foreign Legion and eventually fights for the Americans when the U.S. enters the war; a British soldier wrongly accused of cowardice; and a German soldier mired in the trenches.

Scenes from “Way of the Gun”: