Blockbuster producer behind Hemsworth’s 12 Strong
From blockbuster filmmaker Jerry Bruckheimer (Pirates of the Caribbean franchise, Black Hawk Down), Chris Hemsworth (Thor, The Avengers films) and Oscar nominee Michael Shannon (Revolutionary Road, Nocturnal Animals) star in 12 Strong, a powerful new war drama based on the best-selling book Horse Soldiers.
12 Strong is a story of heroism based on true events that unfolded a world away in the aftermath of 9/11. Inspired by the true story of the harrowing aftermath of 9/11, the war drama sees Hemsworth as Captain Mitch Nelson and his small band of US Special Forces soldiers (which include Shannon, Michael Pena and Trevante Rhodes) as they are sent into Afghanistan to hunt down the Taliban terrorists and their Al-Qaeda brethren for orchestrating and executing the attack on the United States back in 2001.
Overcoming cultural differences in a foreign land, once in Afghanistan, the soldiers soon find that they won’t be able to rely on their high-tech gear or any back-up to complete the mission. They join forces with Northern Alliance General Dostum (played by Navid Negahban) and his band of Afghani soldiers to fight the common enemy. Fighting against an insur- mountable number of adversaries, the US Special Forces soldiers ride to war on horses along with their new allies to strike a group that’s a common enemy also terrorizing people in Afghanistan for years.
“With Special Forces guys, they embed themselves in a community over a course of months or years, and there’s a diplomatic duty and relationship-building within these communities to achieve their outcome… the bigger challenge and the talent of what these guys achieved was the relationship they formed with Dostum, the warlord that were fighting with, and getting him to trust them and leveraging centuries-old blood feuds between these tribes and convince them to understand we’re all fighting the same enemy,” says Hemsworth of the film.
Additionally, Bruckheimer was hooked by the project, “The mission itself is totally unique. Furthermore, we haven’t seen these kinds of soldiers in action in a big movie like this for some time. It’s the first time Hollywood’s made a movie about the Special Forces since The Green Berets. They’re a really special group and they should be memorialized.”
12 Strong is still showing nationwide, from Pioneer Films.