Writers: Andy McNab, Troy Kennedy Martin / Book: Andy McNab / Producers: Ruth Caleb, Anant Singh / Executive Producer: David M. McNab also co-scripted with Troy Kennedy Martin.Ĭast: Sean Bean as Andy McNab Steve Nicolson as Dinger Julia Booth as Sally Robert Hobbs as Stan Alison Coles as Jilly Rick Warden as Tony Ian Curtis as Baz Richard Graham as Mark Kevin Collins as Chris Jamie Bartlett as Ray Graham Hopkins as Graham Barry Berk as Cyril Ron Senior Jr as Pete

But when communications are cut and the team finds themselves surrounded by Saddam’s army, their only hope is to risk capture and torture in a desperate 185-kilometer run to the Syrian border.īased on Andy McNab’s best selling book and true story. by best-selling author Andy McNab, Bravo Two Zero explores the tragedies and triumphs. Andy McNab shot to fame for his book Bravo Two Zero, a bestselling account of a doomed mission behind Iraqi lines during the first Gulf War, of which he was in command The eight-man patrol was. In 1984 he was badged as a member of 22 SAS Regiment. Starring action favorite Sean Bean (The Lord of the Rings trilogy. which was filmed starring Sean Bean, and Immediate Action. Their mission is to take out Saddam Hussein’s SCUD missile systems. Andy McNab joined the infantry in 1976 as a boy soldier. This is Andy McNab s gripping account of the time he served in the company of a remarkable. Theproject also represents BBC Films' commitment to make more ambitious films forwider audiences.In tense wartime drama Bravo Two Zero, it is 1991 at the height of the Gulf War and an SAS patrol, led by Andy (Sean Bean) go deep into Iraqi territory and are soon caught up in a fight for their lives. ' Boy Soldier is both a fantastic thrillerand a moving story of the relationship between a boy and his grandfather. 'We are delighted to be renewing ourrelationship with Andy after Bravo TwoZero,' said David Thompson, head of BBC Films. His co-writer Rigby is ajournalist and playwright who now writes television dramas including BBC's Byker Grove. Danny runs into trouble when he tries to find hisgrandfather, who is being framed by a senior government figure.įormer Army officer McNabhas also written books including BravoTwo Zero (a 1998 BBC project starring Sean Bean ), Avenger, Aggressor, Deep Black, Immediate Action, and Last Light. The film is about Danny, an orphan who triesto join the army and learns that his grandfather is a disgraced former armyofficer now on the run. British soldier Andy McNab (Sean Bean) leads a British Special Air Services patrol deployed during the Gulf War to take down Saddam Hussein's growing arsenal of Scud missiles. MacNab and Rigby are currently writing a screenplayadaptation of Boy Soldier, a thrillerthat is the first in a series of four books. BBC Films has acquired the film rights to Andy McNab and Robert Rigby's thriller Boy Soldier and its sequel Payback.

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