Video: New trailer debuts for Navy SEAL story ‘Lone Survivor’
“There are decisions that change your life.â€
About halfway through the new trailer for “Lone Survivor,†those words flash on the screen, moments after four Navy SEALs, operating deep in hostile territory in the mountains near the Afghanistan-Pakistan border, come across three goat herders.
The U.S. warriors have two basic options: kill the three, including a young boy, or set them free, knowing they are certain to alert the Taliban, who will hunt down the SEALs immediately.
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As Marcus Luttrell recounts in his riveting memoir “Lone Survivor: The Eyewitness Account of Operation Redwing and the Lost Heroes of SEAL Team 10,†the soldiers decide after agonizing deliberation to let the three go, launching a horrific firefight that writer-director Pete Berg chronicles in his Dec. 27 release.
The four SEALs are played by Mark Wahlberg (who stars as Luttrell), Taylor Kitsch (who starred in Berg’s “Battleship†), Emile Hirsch and Ben Foster.
While Luttrell’s book includes an inside look at the training and personality types that make a SEAL, his story’s real drama is how he managed to escape a vastly larger enemy, thanks largely to the heroism of his mortally wounded companions.
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