The Outpost

A team of American soldiers, including 1st Lieutenant Benjamin D. Keating (Orlando Bloom) and Staff Sergeant Clint Romesha (Scott Eastwood), stationed at Combat Outpost Keating in north-eastern Afghanistan, battle a force of hundreds of enemy insurgents from the Taliban.

FIVE FACTS:

1. This film is directed and scripted by Rod Lurie, whose previous directing and writing credits include 2007’s Resurrecting the Champ and 2011’s Straw Dogs.

2. Lurie was an air defense artillery officer in the US Army in the 1980s.

3. The Outpost is based on Jake Tapper’s 2012 non-fiction book The Outpost: An Untold Story of American Valor, focusing on the real-life Battle of Kamdesh that took place in October 2009.

4. Cast members Scott Eastwood, Milo Gibson and James Jagger are sons of, respectively, Clint Eastwood, Mel Gibson and Mick Jagger.

5. The film had been set to premiere at this year’s South by Southwest Film Festival, but the COVID-19 pandemic prompted the event’s cancellation.