Featuring a stellar cast including Josh Brolin, Jeff Bridges, Jennifer Connelly, Taylor Kitsch, Miles Teller, and Andie MacDowell, Only the Brave captures the humanity behind the heroism, as it puts the intense reality of wildland firefighting on the big screen for the first time. With an epic story of real-life heroes pitted against Mother Nature’s fury, the film is like a war movie (and co-written by Black Hawk Down scribe, Ken Nolan), yet focuses in on the personal level to explore the trust, respect and deep sense of brotherhood that develops between the firefighters. Only the Brave, directed by Joseph Kosinski, is based on the heroic true story of an elite firefighting group called the Granite Mountain Hotshots, as they put everything on the line to protect a town threatened by the historic 2013 Yarnell Hill wildfire in Arizona. With Mark Meyers an interview by Derek Stettler “Please be brutally honest with us and let us know when we’re going off into sensationalizing in some way because that’s what we do - we’re storytellers, not hotshots,” he said.īrolin said the entire cast and crew knew the movie would have no bigger impact than in Arizona.Above Photo: Granite Mountain, ONLY THE BRAVE © 2017 Sony Pictures Digital Productions Inc.
“It was also about creating that community,” he said, adding that the cast has kept in daily contact since filming wrapped.īrolin also said the crew was constantly checking with hotshots advising the film to ensure events were accurate. The cast also slept and ate together regularly. To create that sense of realism, Brolin and other stars would hike six to eight miles per day at high altitude, just as the hotshots would. “I think it’s fairly accurate, at least from the reception that we’ve gotten,” he said. The star - who lived in Prescott and worked as a volunteer firefighter in the state - said he understood how close the hotshots were and wanted that to come across on the silver screen. We put a lot of emphasis on, ‘We’re never going to get this perfectly right, but we want to get the spirit of it right.'” “I think we put a lot of emphasis on accuracy.
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