"Paul Walker will star in Clint Eastwood's World War II epic Flags of Our Fathers, says The Hollywood Reporter. He joins a cast that includes Ryan Phillippe, Jesse Bradford and Adam Beach.

The DreamWorks Pictures and Warner Bros. Pictures co-production is based on the book ""Flags of Our Fathers: Heroes of Iwo Jima,"" by James Bradley with Ron Powers. Paul Haggis (Million Dollar Baby) adapted the book.

The story is told from the point of view of Bradley, whose father was one of the six soldiers who raised the American flag at the battle of Iwo Jima. It was only after the elder James' death in 1994 that his son learned the full extent of his father's heroism

Walker will play Hank Hansen, a seasoned soldier and a flag raiser."