The Times-Picayune reported this last year:
Two hundred years after the Battle of New Orleans was waged -- earning it an eternal place in Louisiana history books and further burnishing Andrew Jackson's reputation as one of America's original action heroes -- it is getting the Hollywood treatment.He got his face slashed at 13 years old fighting the British. He lead Americans to victory at the Battle of New Orleans. He walked home to Tennessee because one of his troops was injured in the battle and needed a horse. He paid off the national debt as President. But, it not good enough for corrupt Jacob Lew (Democrat-Citibank).
In a ceremony timed to coincide with local bicentennial celebrations of the historic skirmish between American and British troops, fought in January 1814 as one of the closing salvos of the War of 1812, Hollywood producer Ken Atchity and brother Fred unveiled plans Friday (Jan. 9) for a major feature film about the battle's place in history and Jackson's role in it.
With a planned budget of $60 million to $65 million, the independently financed "Andrew Jackson and the Battle for New Orleans" is being targeted for a possible 2016 release, with shooting to begin as early as this summer. Envisioned by Ken Atchity as a sweeping action epic in the vein of 2000's "The Patriot" and 1995's Oscar-winning "Braveheart," the film will be shot entirely within a 30-mile radius of New Orleans, he said.
