Jake Gyllenhaal has had success in the past playing heroic real-life people (Stronger and Southpaw come to mind), and he's now attached to play another, snagging the lead in Combat Control. Extraction director Sam Hargrave will be calling the shots for the film.
Michael Russell Gunn will adapt Combat Control from the book Alone At Dawn by Dan Schilling and Lori Chapman Longfritz. It'll follow the story of Air Force Combat Control Technician John Chapman, who died in battle on March 4, 2002 in Afghanistan. Following his death, no one imagined it would take over a decade for the truth of what really happened on that snowy mountainside to emerge. Fifteen years later, Air Force Captain Cora Alexander is tasked with the nearly impossible job of investigating whether Chapman is a worthy recipient of the Medal of Honor, despite no eyewitnesses to his actions and the top-secret world surrounding clandestine operations. Alexander has to uncover the truth, and in revealing Chapman’s sacrifice to the world, she forges her own path to self-forgiveness and personal redemption.
MGM is in talks to buy the film, though of course it'll have to wait until both men have cleared their schedules.