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Q: We recently visited the Illinois Holocaust Museum in Skokie for the “Ghost Army” exhibit. It was very interesting. I looked online to see if any movies have been made of this remarkable feat. It said Ben Affleck had looked into it in 2019. When will it be coming out?
A: For those of you tuning in late, the Ghost Army “used inflatable tanks, sound effects, and imagination to fool the Germans on the battlefields of Europe,” according to the Ghost Army Legacy Project website. Kept secret for many years, more recent attention has included the 2013 documentary “The Ghost Army,” directed by Rick Beyer; a 2015 book, “The Ghost Army of World War II,” also by Beyer, and the exhibit at the Illinois museum. In 2019, Affleck was announced as director and star of a movie based on Beyer’s book, but such announcements often do not say when such a movie might happen — especially with performers with packed schedules.
