Justin Kroll Senior Film ReporterEXCLUSIVE: Lesli Linka Glatter will direct Universal Pictures’ Ashley’s War, based on The New York Times bestseller written by Gayle Tzemach Lemmon.Molly Smith Metzler wrote the script.
Reese Witherspoon, Bruna Papandrea and Natalie Krinsky will produce. Lemmon will executive produce.The book tells the story of the creation by the U.S.
Army Special Operations Command of a pilot program that allowed elite women soldiers on the battlefield with Green Berets and Army Rangers in Afghanistan in 2010.
The unit, CST-2, brought together a hand-picked group of women from the Army, and that included 1st Lt. Ashley White, who would become the first CST member killed in action.
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