Universal Pictures has released new behind-the-scenes featurettes in support of Lone Survivor‘s expanded release in theaters on January 10, 2014. The new videos focus on the advanced training the cast went through in order to prepare to play Navy SEALs in the dramatic action based on a true story.
Written and directed by Peter Berg, the cast is led by Mark Wahlberg and features Emile Hirsch, Taylor Kitsch, and Ben Foster.
The Plot: Based on The New York Times bestselling true story of heroism, courage and survival, Lone Survivor tells the incredible tale of four Navy SEALs on a covert mission to neutralize a high-level al-Qaeda operative who are ambushed by the enemy in the mountains of Afghanistan. Faced with an impossible moral decision, the small band is isolated from help and surrounded by a much larger force of Taliban ready for war. As they confront unthinkable odds together, the four men find reserves of strength and resilience as they stay in the fight to the finish.
Mark Wahlberg stars as Marcus Luttrell, the author of the first-person memoir Lone Survivor, whose book has become a motivational resource for its lessons on how the power of the human spirit is tested when we are pushed beyond our mental and physical limits. Starring alongside Wahlberg as the other members of the SEAL team are Taylor Kitsch, Emile Hirsch and Ben Foster.
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