Kevin Bacon Stars in New HBO Film

LOS ANGELES, January 9:
HBO Films' new feature Taking Chance, which debuts February 21 exclusively on HBO, is the story of a
fallen marine's final journey home.

Kevin Bacon stars as
lieutenant colonel Michael Strobl, who requests that he be assigned for military
escort duty to accompany the remains of a 19-year-old fallen marine back to his
family. An HBO Films presentation of a Motion Picture Corporation of America
and Civil Dawn Pictures production, Taking Chance marks the directorial debut of two-time Oscar-nominated
producer Ross Katz (Lost in Translation). The screenplay is by LtCol Michael R. Strobl, USMC (Ret.) and Katz,
based on the journal of the same name by Strobl, who also serves as military
consultant. The executive producers are Brad Krevoy (A Love Song for Bobby
Long), Cathy Wischner-Sola and
Katz; the co-executive producer is William Teitler (HBO's Empire Falls); and the producer is Lori Keith Douglas (The
Notorious Bettie Page). HBO Films'
VP, Jenni Sherwood, is the executive in charge of the production.

—By Kristin
Brzoznowski