{"id":1545,"date":"2008-04-03T04:58:23","date_gmt":"2008-04-03T03:58:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/archives\/2008\/04\/03\/first-photos-of-green-zone\/"},"modified":"2008-04-04T13:58:24","modified_gmt":"2008-04-04T12:58:24","slug":"first-photos-of-green-zone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/2008\/04\/03\/first-photos-of-green-zone\/","title":{"rendered":"First photos of Green Zone"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The first photos of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0947810\/\"><strong>Green Zone<\/strong><\/a> have surfaced over at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thebadandugly.com\/2008\/04\/02\/first-look-damon-in-green-zone\/\">The Bad and Ugly<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Matt Damon was pictured on set in Central London.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/04\/gz1.jpg\" title=\"Matt Damon in Green Zone\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/04\/gz1.jpg\" alt=\"Matt Damon in Green Zone\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Directed by <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Paul_Greengrass\">Paul Greengrass<\/a>, it is based on the 2006 book <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Imperial_Life_in_the_Emerald_City\" title=\"Imperial Life in the Emerald City\">Imperial Life in the Emerald City<\/a> by journalist <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Rajiv_Chandrasekaran\" title=\"Rajiv Chandrasekaran\">Rajiv Chandrasekaran<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/04\/gz3.jpg\" title=\"Matt Damon in Green Zone 3\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/04\/gz3.jpg\" alt=\"Matt Damon in Green Zone 3\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Here is a breakdown of the cast, <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Green_Zone_(film)\">courtesy of Wikipedia<\/a>:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Matt_Damon\" title=\"Matt Damon\">Matt Damon<\/a> portrays Roy Miller,<sup> <\/sup>an officer who helps a senior CIA officer in the search for <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Weapon_of_mass_destruction\" title=\"Weapon of mass destruction\">weapons of mass destruction<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Amy_Ryan\" title=\"Amy Ryan\">Amy Ryan<\/a> portrays Lawrie Dayne, a foreign correspondent for <em><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/The_New_York_Times\" title=\"The New York Times\">The New York Times<\/a><\/em> who investigates the U.S. government&#8217;s claims of the existence of weapons of mass destruction.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Greg_Kinnear\" title=\"Greg Kinnear\">Greg Kinnear<\/a> portrays Clark Poudstone,<sup> <\/sup>a CIA officer.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Jason_Isaacs\" title=\"Jason Isaacs\">Jason Isaacs<\/a> portrays an American military officer.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Brendan_Gleeson\" title=\"Brendan Gleeson\">Brendan Gleeson<\/a> portrays an American soldier.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Khalid_Abdalla\" title=\"Khalid Abdalla\">Khalid Abdalla<\/a> portrays an injured Iraqi who has a &#8220;penchant for <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Bryan_Adams\" title=\"Bryan Adams\">Bryan Adams<\/a>&#8220;.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/w\/index.php?title=Antoni_Corone&amp;action=edit&amp;redlink=1\" class=\"new\" title=\"Antoni Corone (page does not exist)\">Antoni Corone<\/a> portrays a colonel<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/04\/gz2.jpg\" title=\"Matt Damon in Green Zone 2\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/04\/gz2.jpg\" alt=\"Matt Damon in Green Zone 2\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Apparently Paul Greengrass was at the <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Emirates_Stadium\">Emirates Stadium<\/a> last night to see <a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/sport1\/hi\/football\/europe\/7320271.stm\">Arsenal draw 1-1 with Liverpool<\/a> in the <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Champions_league_2008\">Champions League<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>He&#8217;s a <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Crystal_Palace_F.C.\">Crystal Palace<\/a> fan so I wonder who he wanted to win?<\/p>\n<p>UPDATE 04\/03\/08: Some more photos have surfaced on Flickr. It looks like they are filming at <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Freemasons%27_Hall%2C_London\">Freemasons&#8217; Hall<\/a> in London. I guess it is doubling for a building inside the Green Zone?<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/04\/gz-4.jpg\" title=\"Green Zone at the Freemasons Hall 1\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/04\/gz-4.jpg\" alt=\"Green Zone at the Freemasons Hall 1\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/04\/gz-5.jpg\" title=\"Green Zone at the Freemasons Hall 2\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/04\/gz-5.jpg\" alt=\"Green Zone at the Freemasons Hall 2\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>(Photos via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/mattdell\/\">Matt Dell<\/a>)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/user\/zacummin\">Someone<\/a> has also posted a video on YouTube:<\/p>\n<p><object width=\"425\" height=\"355\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/695kW-zd71g&#038;hl=en\"><\/param><param name=\"wmode\" value=\"transparent\"><\/param><embed src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/695kW-zd71g&#038;hl=en\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" wmode=\"transparent\" width=\"425\" height=\"355\"><\/embed><\/object><\/p>\n<p>&gt; <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0947810\/\"><strong>Green Zone<\/strong><\/a><\/strong> at the IMDb<br \/>\n&gt; Original post at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thebadandugly.com\/2008\/04\/02\/first-look-damon-in-green-zone\/\">The Bad and Ugly<br \/>\n<\/a>&gt; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thebadandugly.com\/2008\/04\/02\/first-look-damon-in-green-zone\/\"><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/film.guardian.co.uk\/features\/featurepages\/0,,2141993,00.html\">Guardian interview with Paul Greengrass last year<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The first photos of Green Zone have surfaced over at The Bad and Ugly. Matt Damon was pictured on set in Central London. Directed by Paul Greengrass, it is based on the 2006 book Imperial Life in the Emerald City by journalist Rajiv Chandrasekaran. Here is a breakdown of the cast, courtesy of Wikipedia: Matt [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22,23,2],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1545"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1545"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1545\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1545"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1545"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1545"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}