Army medic inspires film
Schenkkan has been hired to write the screenplay

Philip Anschutz's Bristol Bay Prods. will finance and co-produce a feature based on the WWII saga of Desmond T. Doss, an Army medic who won the Congressional Medal of Honor despite refusing to carry weapons.

Doss project will be produced by Bill Mechanic and David Permut, who have developed it for several years, and Terry Benedict. Steve Longi will co-produce, Gregory Crosby will associate produce, and Bristol Bay exec VP Lenny Kornberg will oversee the project.

Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Robert Schenkkan, who penned "The Quiet American," has been hired to write the screenplay.

Doss, a Seventh Day Adventist, was assigned "conscientious objector" status on religious grounds after being drafted and was ostracized by fellow soldiers for his pacifist stance. During the battle of Okinawa, Doss saved 75 men under enemy fire on a 400-foot-high cliff and subsequently became the only conscientious objector ever to win the Congressional Medal of Honor.

A producer on "Ray" and "Sahara," Bristol Bay is part of Anschutz Film Group along with Walden Media, which co-financed and produced "The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe" with Disney.

Mechanic and his Pandemonium shingle are producers on Paramount's "Torso" and on the animated pic "Coraline." Permut and his Permut Presentation are producing teen comedy "Youth in Revolt" for Dimension and "Brother Sam" at Universal.

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Here is the photo of Gregory Crosby (the named associate producer) Desmond and myself just after Desmond consented to having this done.

(Gregory is the eldest Grandchild of the late Bing Crosby)

Doesn't it strike you as slightly incongruous that Desmond was a CO because he believed the SDA church did not support SDA as combatants,

and now the NAD SDA actively support combatant SDA.

There has been a definite changing of standards here. The SDA denomination was either wrong then or now. Which is it?

/Bevin

MY PERSONAL opinion is that we are to join the army, all of us, of the country where we hold our citizenship.

My citizenship is in heaven, I choose to join the Lord's Army.

As for me and my house, we will serve the Lord

Cool thanks for posting this. Really interesting. I've seen the movie of Desmond Doss. It was shown at campmeeting last year.

That was the Documentary..

Hallelujah, Stan! You're a wizard!

This should be a v-e-r-y important movie.

I think that Doss was a non-com. because that was what he beleived, not that the SDA Church would not support him. Yes, by the way, I have had personal contact with him for days at a time.

The SDA Chruch has never taken a uniform stand on this issue. Today in Germany, the stand is much stricter. In the time of EGW, the church in Scandanavia was different from what it was in the US.

What most of you refer to as the Chruch stand is actually more a North American Division stand. Today, that stand is a recommendation to be a non-com., but that is not a matter for Chruch discipline, and is up the individual conscience.

Yes, the position today in the USA differs from what it was in the days of Doss.