We already knew that Bradley Cooper had signed on to play former Navy SEAL Chris Kyle, who was senselessly killed in February by a fellow veteran, in the motion picture adaptation of Kyle’s autobiography, American Sniper.
Today it was announced that some director named Steven Spielberg is going to helm the project. He’ll be making this instead of the movie he’d been planning to do next: Robopocalypse
So look for the Legend of Chris Kyle to make an appearance at the Oscars in 2015.
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