Bruce Beresford is set to write and direct the new Australian feature based on the
Battle of Long Tan, says the Hollywood Reporter.
The conflict was one of the seminal battles of the Vietnam War for Australian and New Zealand troops. Eighteen Australians died Aug. 18, 1966, when a contingent of 108 soldiers from Australia and New Zealand fought off 2,500 North Vietnamese and Viet Cong troops in a rubber plantation at Long Tan, with enemy casualties numbering 200-500.
Production is expected to start next year, and it's hoped to be filmed entirely in Australia.