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WHO’S IN IT?

Chris Hemsworth (Thor: Ragnarok), Michael Shannon (Nocturnal Animals), Michael Peña (Crash), Navid Negahban (American Sniper), Trevante Rhodes (Moonlight), Elsa Pataky (Snakes on a Plane), William Fichtner (Heat), Rob Riggle (21 Jump Street), Thad Luckinbill (Only The Brave), Geoff Stults (Wedding Crashers), Austin Stowell (Bridge of Spies), Ben O’Toole (Hacksaw Ridge), Austin Hébert (Jack Reacher: Never Go Back), Kenneth Miller (The Company You Keep), Kenny Sheard (Transformers: Dark of the Moon), Jack Kesy (Baywatch), Laith Nakli (Allegiance), Yousuf Azami (Lone Survivor), Saïd Taghmaoui (Wonder Woman), Fahim Fazli (Argo), Peter Malek (Organizatsiya), Alison King (Shanghai Knights), Lauren Myers (The Space Between Us)

WHO’S BEHIND THE CAMERA?

Nicolai Fuglsig (Exfil), director; Peter Craig (The Town) and Ted Tally (The Silence of the Lambs), writers; Jerry Bruckheimer (Top Gun), Thad Luckinbill (Sicario), Trent Luckinbill (Demolition) and Molly Smith (Beautiful Creatures), producers; Lorne Balfe (13 Hours: The Secret Soldiers of Benghazi), composer; Rasmus Videbæk (A Royal Affair), cinematographer; Lisa Lassek (Avengers: Age of Ultron), editor

WHAT’S IT ABOUT?

Immediately following the September 11th attacks, a small number of CIA paramilitary officers and US Special Forces are deployed to Afghanistan, where they join forces with the Afghan Northern Alliance to help conduct unconventional warfare against the growing Taliban threat, which includes among other things riding into battle on horseback…

IN ONE SENTENCE, WHY SHOULD YOU BE EXCITED?

Some of the very first US military heroes following the devastating 9/11 attacks are remembered in this action-packed and patriotic vision of immediate warfare in the wake of terror.

WHEN’S IT OUT?

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