Shoot Like a Girl by Mary Jennings Hegar

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Shoot Like a Girl One Womans Dramatic Fight in Afghanistan and on the Home Front by Mary Jennings Hegar. Gotham is currently in production on “Kodachrome,” starring Ed Harris, Jason Sudeikis and Elizabeth Olsen. Shoot Like a Girl by Mary Jennings Hegar, Mar 13, 2018, Berkley edition, paperback. Nicole Brown originally brought the book to TriStar, and she will oversee the project along with Hannah Minghella. Jolie is in negotiations to play Hegar in the film.Īlso Read: Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie's Post-Divorce Projects Reveal Zero Overlap in Plansįrank Baldwin wrote the current draft of the screenplay. The book is scheduled to be released on Maby Berkley Caliber, an imprint of Penguin Random House. Back at home, she successfully took on the Department of Defense and helped overturn the Combat Exclusion Policy, which banned women from combat positions. The film is an adaptation of Air Force Major Mary Jennings Hegar’s “Shoot Like a Girl: One Woman’s Dramatic Fight in Afghanistan and on the Home Front.” The book follows Hegar’s experience as a member of the armed forces, serving three tours as a helicopter rescue pilot conducting search and rescue missions in some of the most dangerous parts of the world, which earned her a Purple Heart and Distinguished Flying Cross. Air Force, MJ Hegar was selected for pilot training by the Air National Guard, finished at the top of her class, then served three tours in Afghanistan, flying combat search-and-rescue missions, culminating in a harrowing rescue attempt that would earn MJ the Purple Heart as well as the Distinguished Flying Cross with Valor Device.Angelina Jolie is in early talks to star in TriStar’s “Shoot Like a Girl,” based on an upcoming memoir by a female Air Force major who served three tours in Afghanistan and was instrumental in opening up combat roles to women, TheWrap has learned. But soon she would face a new battle: to give women who serve on the front lines the credit they deserve…Īfter being commissioned into the U.S. Despite being wounded, she fought the enemy and saved the lives of her crew and their patients. On June 29, 2009, Air National Guard major Mary Jennings “MJ” Hegar was shot down while on a Medevac mission on her third tour in Afghanistan. Set to be published next spring under the full title “Shoot Like a Girl: One Woman’s Dramatic Fight in Afghanistan and on the Home Front,” the book is officially described as follows:

Angelina Jolie would play Air Force Major Mary Jennings Hegar in the biopic Shoot Like a GirlĪcademy Award winner Angelina Jolie is, according to a story today at The Hollywood Reporter, in talks to headline Shoot Like a Girl, a big screen adaptation of the upcoming memoir by Air Force Major Mary Jennings Hegar.