Mimi Leder to direct Woody Guthrie marine movie
Mimi Leder will direct “Remember Their Names,” a film about a young merchant marine’s tour of duty in WWII alongside Woody Guthrie. Scripted by Leder’s brother, Reuben Leder, the film is based on Jim Longhi’s memoir “Woody, Cisco & Me.” Before Longhi became an attorney, politician and playwright, he enlisted in 1943 and crewed with Guthrie and folksinger Cisco Houston aboard Liberty ships.
Guthrie’s tunes are a big part of the story, as the trio sung and played their way across the Atlantic and Mediterranean to Sicily and then Normandy.
- from Variety