Oliver Stone’s “Platoon” had a long road to the screen, and when it finally got made, it was only after a couple of false starts.
Stone began writing about his experiences in the United States Army as soon as he came back from Vietnam in 1968, but his initial attempt at channeling them into a semi-autobiographical narrative yielded a different screenplay called “Break,” according to the book “Oliver Stone: The Making of His Movies.” It is this script Stone would later redevelop and rewrite into the one that became “Platoon.”Stone was hoping to use the music of The Doors and have the band’s lead singer, Jim Morrison, star…The post Why Two Earlier Versions of Oliver Stone’s Platoon Fell Through appeared first on /Film.
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