I only just now realised something about this second part of Sergeant Slaughter My Big Brother (directed by Greg Williams), depicted in the photos above, This part of the short film wasn’t included in the final edit, and it struck me that it’s most likely because of the Samarkand project.
Samarkand is a story about a man returning to the UK from a war zone in the Middle East, with PTSD. And SSMBB was about a guy who joined the foreign legion and who - in the part we haven’t seen - returned looking a LOT worse for wear. Maybe homeless, definitely psychologically damaged.
My theory is that they left this out from the short film, in order to make it into a feature film, i.e. Samarkand. :)


