Army lieutenant general who serves as commander of I Corps and Joint Base Lewis–McChord, received a Silver Star for the battle and was deployed a number of times back to Iraq. Many of the actors got to meet and get to know their real-life counterpart. “We talked about trying to put it into two hours, but it was pretty clear to me that you couldn’t tell the story as well as it could be told in this format.”Įach of the eight different episodes is from a different perspective of a different soldier and their family. “I think this is a great vehicle to tell the story,” he says. Medavoy has produced movies such as “Apocalypse Now,” “Dances With Wolves” and “Platoon,” but he was thrilled to make “The Long Road Home” for television.
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The series is executive produced by Mike Medavoy, and he and Raddatz have been trying to get the story to the screen for a decade. The production team of “The Long Road Home” actually built the set for Sadr City at Fort Hood where the real-life soldiers had trained before going to Iraq.
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Troy Denomy (Jason Ritter) launch the first of three rescue missions to retake the city and free their men.
Gary Volesky (“House of Cards’” Michael Kelly) and Capt. Back at the First Cavalry’s base camp, Col. The patrol was ambushed by insurgents and cut off. Bonilla in the series) had been assigned to assist with sewage disposal in Sadr City, a slum on the edge of Baghdad that until then had been considered a peaceful area of the country. So relatives of the men – many who had just transferred into Iraq – knew they had been in a fight, but only afterwards would they find out their fates. Unlike past wars where the action was far away, the wives and families of the soldiers knew within hours that there was a deadly battle in Sadr City.
Like the book, the miniseries cuts between events in Iraq and the home front back in Texas. “You have to give them credit, because they didn’t know what I would write.” “The families couldn’t have been more generous and open and the soldiers, too,” says Raddatz. The journalist, who is the Chief Global Affairs Correspondent for ABC News, then went back and carefully reconstructed events, getting to know the surviving soldiers and their wives along the way. Raddatz, who had been covering Iraq since May 2003, learned about the ferocious battle months after it happened. Kate Bosworth as Gina Denomy and Jason Ritter as Capt.
Bush had stood before a “Mission Accomplished” sign and stated that major combat in Iraq was over. A little less than a year before the Sadr City battle, President George W. didn’t want to fight an insurgency but the insurgents had a different idea and so the U.S. That day would change the American military’s mission in Iraq from a peacekeeping mission to fighting a Shiite insurgency.
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