(And by the way those guys insult them by calling them “doozers” – a Fraggle Rock reference?)Įric’s second-in-command Jesse is played by James Badge Dale ( LITTLE WOODS, THE STANDOFF AT SPARROW CREEK, THE EMPTY MAN), so obviously this is gonna be a bounty of rugged man charisma. The importance of changing their status is established when an out-of-town crew won’t listen to Eric’s advice based on local knowledge and the fire destroys a bunch of homes. Eric’s old friend and mentor Duane (Jeff “Bio-digital Jazz” Bridges in a rare short hair role) – who is beloved in the town as both the former fire chief and the leader of the country band The Rusty Pistols – is trying to pull some strings to get them certified. When the story begins they’re officially trainees, a “Type 2” municipal fire and rescue crew doing grunt work, because the elite “Type 1” crews, known as hotshots, are federal. Josh Brolin stars as Eric Marsh, who is mostly called “Supe” because he’s the superintendent of the crew. It’s a high level of filmmaking craft, but the thrills and adventure and shit are honestly backdrop for a story about people, with uniformly strong performances and very effective characterization in the script adapted by Ken Nolan (BLACK HAWK DOWN and, uh, TRANSFORMERS: THE LAST KNIGHT) and Eric Warren Singer (THE INTERNATIONAL, AMERICAN HUSTLE, an episode of Æon Flux) from the GQ article “No Exit” by Sean Flynn. cg they use, but many fire scenes are much more convincing than THOSE WHO WISH ME DEAD (though I liked that movie). I don’t know what amount of pyrotechnics vs.
Miranda also shot THE CURIOUS CASE OF BENJAMIN BUTTON and LIFE OF PI, so obviously he has chops. As on his previous movies TRON: LEGACY and OBLIVION, Kosinski has Claudio Miranda as his director of photography. Warning: the story is tragic, and this is a crier. Released in 2017, ONLY THE BRAVE is the true story of the Granite Mountain Hotshots, an elite fire fighter crew in Prescott, Arizona specializing in clearing fire-fueling plants and starting controlled burns to cut off the spread of wildfires. Before TOP GUN: MAVERICK, director Joseph Kosinski did a movie with a few of the same actors that did not receive as much attention.
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