1950: A Korean War Epic

From Coming Soon: “CJ E&M Pictures and Grapevine Entertainment have just announced that Rob Cohen (The Fast and the Furious, XXX) will direct a Korean War epic entitled 1950 … Marguerite Higgins, the Tribune’s then Far East bureau chief, who had covered the liberation of the Nazi concentration camps at the end of WWII, initially found herself banned by the US Army top brass from covering the Korean conflict, simply because she was a woman. Her persistent efforts to overturn this ruling eventually won her special permission from General Douglas MacArthur to work alongside the front line troops … 1950 follows Higgins’ journey across the Korean peninsula with a platoon of marines, ending with the mass evacuation on Christmas Eve of nearly 200,000 South Korean civilians escaping the oncoming Chinese and North Korean armies.”

I’m excited to see this story on the big screen, and although I don’t know Higgins’ piece in it, I’m interested in her perspective, particularly because she is a female journalist. As always, there’s always a question in my mind about the Western bias that will be inevitably present in the film, so I’m curious to see how that will play out, too.