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      • The film is the first on the slate with Academy Award winning writer, William Monahan (The Departed) penning the script, adapting a story centered on a group of British mercenaries tasked with rescuing a deposed African president from a corrupt dictator.
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  2. Feb 3, 2020 · He nicknamed his band of fighters the Wild Geese, the title of a 1978 film about mercenaries paid to rescue the imprisoned leader of an unnamed African state by a British tycoon.

  3. Feb 10, 2020 · ‘Mad Mike’ Hoare: Legendary Leader of the Wild Geese. A Biography Hardcover – April 1, 2020. Amazon. Hoare and his mixed group managed to save many lives. During this time, Hoare had given his unit the nickname “The Wild Geese,” and they became internationally famous.

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  4. Feb 3, 2020 · He nicknamed his band of fighters the Wild Geese, the title of a 1978 film about mercenaries paid to rescue the imprisoned leader of an unnamed African state by a British tycoon. The film...

  5. Mike Hoare, known universally by the moniker “Mad Mike”, was the mercenary whose African military adventures were immortalised in the film The Wild Geese. Hoare, who has died age 100, was...

  6. ‘Mad Mike’ was a gentleman adventurer whose military brilliance and anti-communist beliefs took him into the heart of darkness, the Congo. With 300 Wild Geese he crushed a rebellion, beat Che Guevara … and became a Legend. Buy the book

  7. The Wild Geese. During the mid-1970s, Hoare was hired as technical adviser for the movie The Wild Geese, the fictional story of a group of mercenary soldiers hired to rescue a deposed African president who resembled Tshombe while the central African nation the story was set in resembled the Congo.

  8. Feb 4, 2020 · His soldiers’ nickname “Wild Geese”, inspired the title of a 1978 film about mercenaries in Africa which starred Richard Burton, Roger Moore, Richard Harris and Hardy Kruger.

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