The 50-year-old actor said that he was in talks about a film of ?these guys who do what they are asked to for very little money to defend and fight for what they consider to be freedom?.

Unlike many Hollywood stars Willis supports the war and recently offered a $1m (about £583,000) bounty for the capture of any of Al-Qaeda?s most wanted leaders such as Osama Bin Laden, Ayman Al-Zawahiri or Abu Musab al- Zarqawi, its commander in Iraq. Willis visited the war zone with his rock and blues band, the Accelerators, in 2003.

?I am baffled to understand why the things I saw happening in Iraq are not being reported,? he told MSNBC, the American news channel.