It drew from his upbringing around the punk music scene, as well as interviews with real skinheads.
The film became the focus of a post-production dispute between director Tony Kaye and lead actor Edward Norton.
[5][6] He then wrote the screenplays for Blow, about American cocaine smuggler George Jung, and Get Carter, a remake of the 1971 film of the same name, starring Michael Caine.
McKenna was unhappy with the finished film, and chose to be credited under the pseudonym Zachary Long.
[7][8][9] The show starred Benjamin Bratt as Major James Tisnewski, a former Delta Force operator and Dennis Hopper as Colonel Eli McNulty, as officers working in the E-ring of the Pentagon in the Special Operations Division (SOD) – planning and co-ordinating covert US special operations actions around the globe.