Hayden Christensen, the much-maligned man who helped perform the dark miracle of making Darth Vader uncool, is taking on the role of a lawyer charged with defending the infamous General Masaharu Homma, the man implicated in the Bataan Death March, in Beast of Bataan. Hollywood Reporter also tells us that Willem Dafoe and William Hurt may join the film as well.
Based on Lawrence Taylor's tome "A Trial of Generals," the story follows the aftermath of the 1942 Bataan Death March, in which 10,000 American and Filipino POWs died on a forced march to captivity. Christensen is playing Homma's young lawyer, trying his first case and fighting against the death penalty for his client, who is being tried for war crimes by U.S. Gen. Douglas MacArthur. Chris Carlson and Mark Jean wrote the screenplay.
