![]() ![]() Miles Teller and Josh Brolin are set to star in the action pic from Tron: Legacy director Joseph. Kitsch remembers hearing about the Yarnell Hill Fire when it happened, but never knew the full story until he got the script for this film. Scott Haze will suit up for the the firefighter film No Exit. In his next film, Only the Brave, the actor combines all that accrued experience for one of his most daunting roles yet: firefighter Chris MacKenzie (“Mac,” as Kitsch calls him), a 30-year-old wildfire specialist who died in the devastating Yarnell Hill blaze that claimed the lives of 19 firefighters in 2013.īased on a harrowing GQ article, Only the Brave, directed by Joseph Kosinski, paints a familial portrait of the 19 “hotshots”-firefighters who are specially trained to tame unforgiving wildfires-who died that day. He’s also, by his count, played at least six real people (including cult leader David Koresh, in the upcoming series Waco). In his most prominent acting roles, the native Canadian has played a Navy Seal ( Lone Survivor), a California detective ( True Detective), and a star football player ( Friday Night Lights), all with a thread of homegrown panache. And what came out of that is a brotherhood and a camaraderie that I don't know if I've ever felt in any other movie to that extent.You would be forgiven for thinking Taylor Kitsch is the ultimate all-American guy. They really, they truly went through it - they had an experience. We were going from 8,000 feet elevation to 11,000 feet. Based on the true story of the Granite Mountain Hotshots, a group of elite firefighters who risk everything to protect a town from a historic wildfire. With Josh Brolin, Miles Teller, Jeff Bridges, Jennifer Connelly. We were hiking maybe six to eight miles a day. Only the Brave: Directed by Joseph Kosinski. They had shoes that they had to break in, so it was a very bloody two weeks of breaking in those Nicks. On getting his fellow actors to check their egos for the filmĭuring the training of what we did, they had 45-pound packs, and I made sure that they were always 45 pounds. And there's no way that you're not going to have some kind of clash, some kind of compromise that needs to come out of that reintegrating or trying to reintegrate. ![]() ![]() Yea, it deals with the realities, with the tensions that exist when you have somebody in such a heightened reality coming home to somebody who's living this kind of domesticated existence, and trying to keep things, you know, moving forward on the home front. On the film's conflict between duty and family And I think the same thing goes for firefighters. ![]() Guys, troops who are in war will tell you that the brotherhood in war is unlike anything you will ever experience outside of that situation. It's like saying, you know, going to war. Firefighters love what they do because there's a brotherhood. So I know these guys extremely well, and I've heard that said many times. Me, I was a volunteer firefighter for 3 years in my twenties, and I've been around the firefighting community for 30 years. On his line "This is the best job in the world" So I think it's very apropos that we have something to bring more awareness to what these people go through every day – these common people doing very uncommon and very dangerous things in order to assure the safety of their communities." But, it does if the film is Top Gun: Maverick, and if Miles Teller is involved. "With what's happening in California right now, I've had extended family be evacuated from their homes," Brolin says. Updating a beloved movie from decades ago with a mostly new cast of characters doesnt always work. In an interview, he says the film takes on new relevance in light of current events. Josh Brolin stars as Eric Marsh, the supervisor of the crew based out of Prescott, Ariz. Only The Brave is directed by Joseph Kosinski, and features Miles Teller, Jeff Bridges and Jennifer Connelly. Hotshots are the elite crews that attack and try to contain wildfires with chainsaws, shovels and flames of their own (to create firebreaks). The ongoing wildfires in Northern California have reminded many Americans of the courage - the heroism - of the men and women who fight fires in forests and wilderness.Ī new film called Only The Brave is based on the true story of the 19 members of the Granite Mountain Hotshots who battled, and ultimately lost their lives, in Arizona's Yarnell Hill Fire during late June of 2013. Richard Foreman/Courtesy of Sony Pictures Josh Brolin stars as Eric Marsh, supervisor of a wilderness firefighting team, in the new film Only The Brave. ![]()
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