The group of Granite Mountain Hotshots on Yarnell Hill lost all of their 20 but one survivor in Brendan McDonough (Teller). GQ’s editor-in-chief Jim Nelson recalled commissioning the piece from Flynn, how it was a “really gripping, moving story that had such a tragic ending but you also felt these people, who live these daily heroic adventures by showing up for work, too often get forgotten by us.” “It’s hard to find original concepts,” Ostroff told TheWrap.”Drawing on these real life stories that are formulated and crafted so beautifully makes our job easier.” Sean Flynn’s “No Exit” was published in the pages of the Conde Nast title in 2013 and mounted as an ambitious web feature tracking the harrowing Yarnell Hill Fire - Arizona’s deadliest ever which overran 19 members of the aforementioned squad named the Granite Mountain Hotshots.Īlso Read: 'Only the Brave' Review: Josh Brolin Firefighter Saga Digs Deepĭirected by Joseph Kosinski (“Tron: Legacy”) and co-produced by the prolific Lorenzo di Bonaventura, the film also represents one the most ambitious efforts from Conde Nast Entertainment’s Dawn Ostroff, also a producer here and a veteran TV executive brought on by the high-brow publisher to adapt its journalism and brand power into filmed content. The story of Josh Brolin and Miles Teller’s “Only The Brave,” out Friday from Sony Pictures, happened in real life and was adapted from a widely-read 2013 GQ magazine story. Everyday heroes whose loved ones suffered the “greatest loss of firefighters since 9/11.”Īny studio head would likely break a finger motioning to greenlight that concept if it came through on spec, but that’s not how it was born. An elite squad of first responders in the Arizona mountains.
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