Gone are Mendes, Gyllenhaal, Deakins’s shadowy photography, and any trace of Swofford’s source material. Nine years later, Jarhead 2: Field of Fire is a thing. It shuffled into movie history without a single Golden Globe, let alone an Oscar. With a budget of nearly $72 million, Jarhead recouped $62 million at home and $34 million overseas. A pulsating trailer featuring Kanye West’s “Jesus Walks” solidified Jarhead as Universal Pictures’ “Oscar bait.” But Mendes’s film couldn’t build momentum. Pedigree sold the anti-action cinema: Academy Award–winning director Sam Mendes wrangled an A-list cast, including Jake Gyllenhaal, Peter Sarsgaard, Chris Cooper, Jamie Foxx, and below-the-line assets like esteemed cinematographer Roger Deakins and legendary Apocalypse Now editor Walter Murch.
Based on a New York Times best-selling memoir written by Anthony Swofford, the film sidestepped conventional war movie tropes to portray the Gulf War as inactive and infuriating. Jarhead arrived in theaters in November 2005 as a singular artistic venture.
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