5 Things You Didn’t Know About ‘Battle for Saipan’ with Producer Daemon Hillin

​Casper Van Dien (Alita: Battle Angel) and Louis Mandylor (Rambo: Last Blood) star in BATTLE FOR SAIPAN, an edge-of-your-seat WWII epic now available on digital platforms and in select theaters. On July 7th, 1944, a US Army hospital on the remote island of Saipan is overrun by Japanese forces during a relentless attack. Outgunned and surrounded by the enemy, a lone medic (Van Dien) puts it all on the line to lead a band of wounded warriors to safety.

Daemon Hillin, acclaimed producer of such films as THE LONG NIGHT and HELLBLAZERS, tells us 5 things you won’t know about the making of the film.
 
Something people might not realize about the real battle…
That WW2 medics were not armed, when Brandon Slagle, our writer, came to me with this fact I found it very interesting.
 
I was shocked to learn that…
The man who was the inspiration for this film, Ben Solomon, was stationed in Saipan as a surgeon who, during the final Banzai charge, defended the hospital post and killed close to 100 enemy soldiers
 
We shot the film in…
In areas around Bangkok, Thailand.
 
Most of the cast and crew were…
A very diverse group of individuals, from the US, Italy, Thailand, and other countries who base themselves out of Thailand. The diligent hard working Thai crew are who make all of this possible.
 
The hardest part of making a movie like this is…
We shot this movie in ten days, I wished we had 20 days.

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Producer Daemon Hillin