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Watch Three New Featurettes From Peter Berg’s Excellent LONE SURVIVOR

By Michelle McCue | January 9, 2014

Universal Pictures will release director Peter Berg’s superb LONE SURVIVOR in theaters tomorrow, January 10. It’s the first must-watch film of 2014!

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.

The studio has released three fascinating behind-the-scenes featurettes from the set of LONE SURVIVOR.

Take a look at the cast’s advanced training and learn more about the special weapons and military equipment that were used in the film, featuring interviews from writer/director Peter Berg and Marcus Luttrell, along with the cast and crew.

Check out this interesting infographic highlighting the elite individuals who have the courage and strength to become a Navy SEAL.

MARK WAHLBERG (The Fighter, Contraband) leads the cast 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 elite team who gave everything for their brothers-in-arms are TAYLOR KITSCH (Savages, Friday Night Lights) as Michael Murphy, EMILE HIRSCH (Into the Wild, television’s Bonnie and Clyde) as Danny Dietz and BEN FOSTER (3:10 to Yuma, Kill Your Darlings) as Matthew “Axe” Axelson. ERIC BANA (Star Trek, Hanna) joins the core team as Erik Kristensen, their commanding officer in Afghanistan.

With the exception of Luttrell, all were killed June 28, 2005, by enemy forces while supporting Operation Red Wings.

LONE SURVIVOR is written and directed by Peter Berg, who again crafts a striking portrait of the unbreakable bonds between men that he first explored in Friday Night Lights.

I have seen the film twice now and I can tell you it’s something you want to experience on the big screen. Berg truly respects and honors these men with a realistic, timeless and isolated portrait of the sacrifices that one small band of warriors made… and how one survived to tell their tale.

Navy SEALs operating in Afghanistan in support of Operation Enduring Freedom.

(L to R) Sonar Technician (Surface) 2nd Class MATTHEW G. AXELSON, of Cupertino, California; Senior Chief Information Systems Technician DANIEL R. HEALY, of Exeter, New Hampshire; Quartermaster 2nd Class JAMES SUH, of Deerfield Beach, Florida; Hospital Corpsman 2nd Class MARCUS LUTTRELL; Machinist’s Mate 2nd Class ERIC S. PATTON, of Boulder City, Nevada; and Lt. MICHAEL P. MURPHY, of Patchogue, New York pose in Afghanistan.

A total of 11 SEALs and 8 soldiers perished on that mountain. This day is forever marked in our history, as it became the biggest single loss of life for Naval Special Warfare forces since World War II, until August 6, 2011, when a U.S. Boeing CH-47 Chinook military helicopter was shot down in Afghanistan and 30 U.S. military personnel and 8 Afghans were killed.

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