After asking MacGregor if it is a beautiful day for the infantry and receiving an enthusiastic affirmation, he boards the plane.Ĭhris Roessner's script Sand Castle, based on his own experience as a machine gunner in Iraq's Sunni Triangle, appeared among the 2012 unproduced Black List screenplays. Later that day, he is escorted to the airfield by Harper and Sergeant Major MacGregor.
Harper is given three weeks leave, and Ocre is told he is going home. Ocre and Harper return to their base in Baghdad. However, soon after, the pump station is hit by an improvised explosive device brought by one of the workers in a suicide bombing, destroying all of the work done by the group and killing several Americans and Iraqis. Work on the pump station finally resumes, with Arif bringing in a crew of local workers. The attacks succeeds, killing several enemy and capturing more, but Corporal Enzo and Sergeant Burton are both injured and need to be evacuated by helicopter. A plan is quickly formed to attack them that night. The administrator's brother Arif angrily tells Syverson where the insurgents have been meeting. One morning, none of the Iraqis show up to work and the squad returns to the village, where they find the administrator's body burned and tied to a stake in the schoolyard. They engage in a pitched firefight with several enemy shooting from the rooftops, during which Chutsky is killed.Īfter finally getting help from Kadeer, the administrator of the local school, who desperately needs water to keep the school open, they begin making better progress on the station. The next day, while passing out water, gunfire breaks out. During another trip, they are attacked by several insurgents with small arms, who shoot holes in the tank. They stop the vehicle and interrogate the driver, but learn he is taking his young daughter to another village for medicine. During one return trip, a vehicle is spotted coming up behind them at high speed. With no labor forthcoming from the village, they are forced to help the engineers themselves. However, when the morning comes, there is no one there by the time they are ready to leave. Back at the village, they inform the locals that they will pay anyone who shows up to work the next morning.
At the station, the Army engineers working on the pump explain that it will take many weeks to finish repairs, but that the repairs would go much faster if Staff Sergeant Harper could recruit some of the villagers to help. Syverson introduces them to their interpreter and explains that they are to travel to the pump station and fill a tanker with water to bring back to the village every day. They arrive in the village and meet up with a Special Forces unit led by Captain Syverson. The film then skips forward to some time after the battle, when Ocre's squad is tasked with repairing a broken water system in the dangerous village of Baqubah. During the battle, Ocre spots a sniper and Sergeant Dylan Chutsky calls in a helicopter strike that destroys the building the sniper is in. His cast gets cut off just in time to be sent to Baghdad. Some time later, he is seen with a cast on his arm, his attempt having been unsuccessful. Narration reveals that he enlisted in July 2001, in order to get money for college. It was released on Apon Netflix.Īt the beginning of the 2003 Iraq War, Private Matt Ocre, a young civil affairs soldier with the Army Reserve slams his hand in the door of a Humvee in an attempt to get sent home. It is inspired by Roessner's experience as a soldier in the Iraq War. The film centers on Matt Ocre, a young soldier in the United States Army, who is tasked with restoring water to a village in Iraq. The film stars Nicholas Hoult, Henry Cavill, Logan Marshall-Green, Tommy Flanagan, Glen Powell, Beau Knapp, and Neil Brown Jr. Sand Castle is a 2017 American war drama film directed by Fernando Coimbra and written by Chris Roessner.
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