Hook-handed Vietnam veteran Staff Sergeant John 'Four Leaf' Tayback's memoir Tropic Thunder is being made into a film. Downey was nominated for an Academy Award, a BAFTA Award, and a Screen Actors Guild Award, while both he and Cruise received nominations for a Golden Globe Award. The film opened at the top of the American box office and retained the number-one position for three consecutive weeks, ultimately grossing more than $195 million worldwide before its release on home media on November 18, 2008. However, the depiction of disabled people and the use of brownface makeup attracted controversy. being the most positively praised for his performance. It received generally positive reviews for its characters, story, faux trailers, and cast performances, with Downey Jr. Paramount Pictures and DreamWorks released Tropic Thunder in the United States on August 13, 2008. The extensive marketing campaign included faux websites for three of the main characters and their fictional films, a fictional television special, and selling the energy drink advertised in the film, 'Booty Sweat'. Filming took place in 2007 on the Hawaiian island of Kaua'i over thirteen weeks and was the largest film production in the island's history. The film was green-lit in 2006 and produced by Stuart Cornfeld, Stiller, and Eric McLeod for Red Hour Productions and DreamWorks Pictures as an international coproduction between the United States, Germany, and the United Kingdom. Stiller developed Tropic Thunder 's premise during the production of Empire of the Sun in the spring of 1987, and later enlisted Theroux and Cohen to complete a script.

The ensemble cast includes Nick Nolte, Danny McBride, Matthew McConaughey, Bill Hader, and Tom Cruise. Tropic Thunder parodies many prestigious war films (specifically those based on the Vietnam War), the Hollywood studio system, and method acting. When their frustrated director ( Steve Coogan) drops them in the middle of a jungle and dies in an accident, they are forced to rely on their acting skills to survive the real action and danger. Jackson as a group of prima donna actors making a Vietnam War film. The film stars Stiller, Jack Black, Robert Downey Jr., Jay Baruchel, and Brandon T. Tropic Thunder is a 2008 satirical action comedy film directed by Ben Stiller, who wrote the screenplay with Justin Theroux and Etan Cohen.

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