Fresh from his Broadway run in WWI drama Journey's End, Stark Sands plays First Lieutenant Nathaniel Fick, a level-headed soldier whose smarts and nobility go thankless. There's First Recon commander Lieutenant Colonel Stephen "Godfather" Ferrando (Chance Kelly), named so for his strained voice, a result of throat cancer. And these are only four of twenty-eight starring cast members (supported by yet more players), with one Marine (Sergeant Rudy Reyes) playing himself and another playing someone else. Sergeant Brad "Iceman" Colbert (Alexander SkarsgÄrd) commands the lead vehicle, also peopled by witty loudmouth Corporal Josh Ray Person ( Ken Park's James Ransone, doing standout work) and nervously energetic Lance Corporal Harold James Trombley (Billy Lush) quickly family, they are given to singalongs on their road trip. In the miniseries, embedded Rolling Stone reporter Evan Wright ( Oz's Lee Tergesen) travels with the Second Platoon of the Marines' First Reconnaissance Battalion's Bravo Company. The seven-part HBO miniseries event Generation Kill is based on Evan Wright's best-selling book, which in turn was based on his Rolling Stone article "The Killer Elite." Following Reconnaissance Marines on their long slog into Baghdad, Generation Kill retains the journalistic flavor of its source, in turns terrifying and absurd, with gallows humor never far out of reach. For an encore to their sociopolitical look at the drug war as fought in Baltimore, they took on nothing less than Operation Iraqi Freedom. Having put to bed one of the greatest television shows of all time (HBO's The Wire), producers David Simon and Ed Burns didn't rest on their laurels.
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