Kusturica turned down the Russian offer. See the link: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/10/19/AR2009101902284.html, it says: Serb filmmaker Emir Kusturica turned down a Russian offer to direct another film about the war. "I didn't accept it because I have a binding contract for the next four years," he told Reuters Monday.

I can't wait to see the movie. Hope the western world (France, Italy, Germany) will se the real Russia, how Russia is trying to destabilised the whole Eastern Europe and the Caucasus region. Maybe next they will make a movie about Chechnya with Brad Pitt the leader of the freedom fighers, fighting the Russian imperialism...

“A great human story with tragic, serious overtones. I saw it as my opportunity to use my experience in action films to tell the story of a complex conflict that is impartial but makes a strong antiwar statement,” he told Variety back in August of this year.” Does anybody seriously believe that this will be anything but bias towards Russia look at how fairly Russia has been portrayed in the US media before in films like The Sum of All Fears or the various other films! The fact that most of it will be set in Georgia and Garcia will be playing the President shows that it will most likely be from Georgia’s point of view.

send specnas and kil the beast