Question: Andrew Pleavin is an English actor who in February 2006, was cast in an American epic war film directed by who?

Context articles: Braveheart
300 (film)
Andrew Pleavin
Inchon (film)
The Thin Red Line (1998 film)
Jeremy Irvine
Apocalypse Now
Gettysburg (1993 film)
The Longest Day (film)
Rescue Dawn

Braveheart is a 1995 American epic war film directed by and starring Mel Gibson.
 Gibson portrays William Wallace, a late 13th-century Scottish warrior who led the Scots in the First War of Scottish Independence against King Edward I of England.
 The story is inspired by Blind Harry's epic poem "The Actes and Deidis of the Illustre and Vallyeant Campioun Schir William Wallace" and was adapted for the screen by Randall Wallace.
300 is a 2006 American epic war film based on the 1998 comic series "300" by Frank Miller and Lynn Varley.
 Both are fictionalized retellings of the Battle of Thermopylae within the Persian Wars.
 The film was directed by Zack Snyder, while Miller served as executive producer and consultant.
 It was filmed mostly with a super-imposition chroma key technique, to help replicate the imagery of the original comic book.
Andrew Pleavin (born 13 April 1968) is an English actor known for his appearances in the TV film "Attila", "Unstoppable", "Batman Begins", "Attack of the Gryphon", "Return to House on Haunted Hill" and his roles in the British police dramas "Messiah III: the Promise" and "The Bill".
 In February 2006, he was cast in "300" by Frank Miller, a film in which he played a character called Daxos.
Inchon (also called Inchon!)
 is a 1981 South Korean–American epic war film about the Battle of Inchon, considered to be the turning point of the Korean War.
 The film was directed by Terence Young and financed by Unification Church founder Sun Myung Moon.
 It stars Laurence Olivier as General Douglas MacArthur, who led the United States surprise amphibious landing at Incheon, South Korea in 1950.
 Also featured are Jacqueline Bisset, Ben Gazzara, Toshiro Mifune, and Richard Roundtree.
 It was filmed in South Korea, California, Italy, Ireland and Japan.
The Thin Red Line is a 1998 American epic war film written and directed by Terrence Malick.
 Based on the novel by James Jones, it tells a semi-fictionalized version of the Battle of Mount Austen, which was part of the Guadalcanal Campaign in the Pacific Theater of World War II.
 It portrays soldiers of C Company, 1st Battalion, 27th Infantry Regiment, 25th Infantry Division, played by Sean Penn, Jim Caviezel, Nick Nolte, Elias Koteas and Ben Chaplin.
 Although the title may seem to refer to a line from Rudyard Kipling's poem "Tommy", from "Barrack-Room Ballads", in which he calls foot soldiers "the thin red line of heroes", referring to the stand of the 93rd Regiment in the Battle of Balaclava of the Crimean War, it is in reality a quote from Jones's book which reads, "they discover the thin red line that divides the sane from the mad... and the living from the dead..."
Jeremy William Fredric Smith (born 18 June 1990), better known as Jeremy Irvine, is an English actor who made his film debut in the epic war film "War Horse" (2011).
 In 2012, he portrayed Philip "Pip" Pirrip in the film adaptation of "Great Expectations", and earned widespread critical acclaim for his role in the independent film "Now Is Good" (2012).
Apocalypse Now is a 1979 American epic war film directed, produced, and co-written by Francis Ford Coppola.
 It was co-written by John Milius with narration written by Michael Herr.
 It stars Marlon Brando, Robert Duvall, Martin Sheen, Frederic Forrest, Albert Hall, Sam Bottoms, Larry Fishburne, and Dennis Hopper.
 The screenplay, written by Milius, adapts the story of Joseph Conrad's novella "Heart of Darkness", changing its setting from late nineteenth-century Congo to the Vietnam War.
 It draws from Herr's "Dispatches" and Werner Herzog's "Aguirre, the Wrath of God" (1972).
 The film revolves around Captain Benjamin L. Willard (Sheen) on a secret mission to assassinate Colonel Kurtz, a renegade who is presumed insane.
Gettysburg is a 1993 American epic war film written and directed by Ronald F. Maxwell, adapted from the historical novel "The Killer Angels" (1974) by Michael Shaara, about the Battle of Gettysburg during the American Civil War.
 The film stars Tom Berenger, Jeff Daniels, and Martin Sheen; its score was composed by Randy Edelman.
 The film "Gods and Generals" is an adaptation of the 1996 novel of the same name by Jeffrey Shaara and was filmed as a prequel to Maxwell's "Gettysburg".
The Longest Day is a 1962 epic war film based on Cornelius Ryan's book "The Longest Day" (1959), about the D-Day landings at Normandy on June 6, 1944, during World War II.
 The film was produced by Darryl F. Zanuck, who paid author Ryan $175,000 for the film rights.
 The screenplay was by Ryan, with additional material written by Romain Gary, James Jones, David Pursall and Jack Seddon.
 It was directed by Ken Annakin (British and French exteriors), Andrew Marton (American exteriors), and Bernhard Wicki (German scenes).
Rescue Dawn is a 2006 American epic war drama film written and directed by Werner Herzog, based on an adapted screenplay written from his 1997 documentary film "Little Dieter Needs to Fly".
 The film stars Christian Bale, and is based on the true story of German-American pilot Dieter Dengler, who was shot down and captured by villagers sympathetic to the Pathet Lao during an American military campaign in the Vietnam War.
 Steve Zahn, Jeremy Davies, Pat Healy, and Toby Huss also have principal roles.
 The film project, which had initially come together during 2004, began shooting in Thailand in August 2005.