Todd Gilchrist Based on CNN reporter Jake Tapper’s nonfiction book of the same name, Rod Lurie’s new film “The Outpost” recreates the Battle of Kamdesh – a bloody 2009 showdown in Afghanistan between 53 U.S.
soldiers and more than 400 enemy insurgents – with startling authenticity.When the time came to mount his re-enactment of this dramatic conflict, Lurie, a West Point graduate, knew he’d face an uphill battle enlisting the Department of Defense for assistance. “I worked for a little while in the office that approved or disapproved movies that the army was going to cooperate with,” Lurie tells Variety. “And I know that really in your best-case scenario, the military does not assist you because they do assert some level of control to.
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