The Outpost debuts in theaters and VOD this Friday.
EW spoke to the director, Scott Eastwood, and a real-life soldier from the Battle of Kamdesh.
Getting a shot done quickly was at a premium.
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“We had one camera.
Everything had to be perfect.”
The Outpost’s climax retells the events of Oct. 3, 2009 in vivid detail.
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That day a force of 400 Taliban assaulted a crew of 53 soldiers in Kamdesh, Afghanistan.
But they would survive as heroes.
Eastwood had sustained a significant injury not long before this.
“I think [Lurie] did an incredible job of making this film feel super kinetic and visceral.
Like you’re in it the whole time with them.
You live in it.
You feel it.”
“The secret silver lining is it was about two more weeks to rehearse.
And so I took my camera people and I took my stuntman and we pre-visualized every action sequence.
Senatore had done something similar in a previous project, allowing the camera to act as their Steadicam.
Lurie hoped more could see the movie in the big screen, but still hopes that message translates.
And I’ve been waiting for a long time to be able to do that.”
