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EXCLUSIVE: Universal Pictures just completed an option on House to House, the memoir of U.S. Army staff sergeant David Bellavia’s harrowing experience in the Second Battle Of Fallulah. The studio, which bought it for Imagine Entertainment, knew just the writer who’d bring an inherent understanding of the subject matter. Universal has set Max Adams, who just turned in a draft to the studio of The Risk Agent, a thriller vehicle for Vince Vaughn. Adams also spent 11 years serving his country in the U.S. Army, an enlisted M-3 Gustav gunner and team leader in the 1st Ranger Battalion who as a young lieutenant led soldiers in combat during the initial ground invasion of the Iraq War. He was discharged in 2006 and just produced the Robert De Niro-starrer Bus 657, and produced and directed the Bruce Willis starrer Precious Cargo.

via Ex-Army Gunner Max Adams To Adapt Fallujah Memoir ‘House To House’ For Universal | Deadline.

Bellavia’s book was a gut wrenching read, one of the first to be published by a grunt about the war in Iraq. If the movie stays true to the book, it will be a moving experience. Our Army loves to use high technology to solve problems. But some problems don’t lend themselves to technology. That’s where training and fortitude come in. And Bellavia’s fight in Fallujah was as up close and personal as any through the ages.