The cast is rounded out by Yousuf Azami as Ahmad Shah, a Taliban leader; Sammy Sheik as Taraq, a field commander of the Taliban group; [5] Rich Ting as SO2 James Suh; Dan Bilzerian as Senior Chief Special Operator (SOCS) Daniel Healy; Jerry Ferrara as United States Marine Corps Sgt Hasslert; Scott Elrod as Peter Musselman; Rohan Chand as Gulab's son; and Corey Large as US Navy SEAL Captain Kenney. Furthermore, Gulab has claimed that he found Luttrell with eleven magazines of ammunition – the full amount that Luttrell had brought on the mission. Don't pay too much attention to the complaints about either the narrator or the author's conservative politics.

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The Taliban reportedly went to the location of their insertion the following morning and began tracking their footprints. that one almost forgives the movie's failure to be quite as persuasive in almost every other respect. They debated whether they should kill the goatherds to avoid being exposed to the enemy, but after a vote, team leader Michael Murphy decided to uphold the rules of engagement and let the goatherds go.Lone Survivor' director Peter Berg used autopsy reports, Navy SEAL consultants to film one of the most realistic war movies of all time – NY Daily News". He claims the local villagers and American military never found any Taliban corpses after combing the mountains. Leonard Maltin described the film as "visceral", while praising Berg, the main actors, and the stunt performers for successfully reenacting the events of Operation Red Wings. Having read the book before, as well as seeing the movie, countless interviews and podcasts with Marcus listening to this narrator is damn near impossible. Berg first learned of the book while filming Hancock, [8] and after he and Aubrey read it, they arranged several meetings with Luttrell to discuss a film adaptation.

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Costume designer Amy Stofsky ensured that the military wardrobe seen in the film reflected the 2005 time period. We realized that an actual briefing is very technical and rote, so intercutting these scenes helped keep the audience engaged.Berg said, "[Jablonsky] did the last reel; the band Explosions in the Sky did pretty much did everything else. Luttrell is proud to have served the American military, and feels certain that, if given the option to go back in time, he’d volunteer for the SEALs once again, without a second’s hesitation.

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What's starting out like a Special Forced recruitment video soon follows the well known paths of war survival films. In 2005 Afghanistan, Navy SEALs Marcus Luttrell (Mark Wahlberg), Michael Murphy (Taylor Kitsch), Danny Dietz (Emile Hirsch) and Matthew "Axe" Axelson (Ben Foster) deploy on a mission of surveillance and to take out Taliban leader Ahmad Shah. While the film was based on actual events, it has been noted that it contained a number of historical inaccuracies.

Zarin Mohammad Rahimi, who acted as a technical advisor during production, appears as an elderly shepherd who discovers the four-man SEAL team during the mission; Nicholas Patel and Daniel Arroyo play the goat herders who assist the shepherd. But one of the Afghans alerts a group of Taliban fighters to the invaders, and a terrible battle ensues, in which the SEALs find themselves hopelessly outnumbered and outgunned. The Pentagon has officially confirmed more than 150 of Kyles kills (the previous American record was 109), but it has declined to verify the astonishing total number for this book. In North America, Lone Survivor is the 24th-highest-grossing film of 2013, [81] and the sixth-highest-grossing R-rated film of that year.