"He goes on these tours, and talks about these guys," says Foster. The first thing that went through my head was Marcus did it. "We started getting e-mails and calls pretty quickly," says Foster. Lone Survivor dominated the box office in January - it opened wide at $37.8 million on the way to $150 million box office. Mission accomplished for the film, which is based on Luttrell's best seller. "This movie allowed us the opportunity to serve something." "I could only say, 'I will take what you are sharing and I'm going to try to love that person like I had known him all my life, the way you loved your son, brother or husband,' " says Foster. "We just listened to them," says Foster, who found that Axelson's family found it was an important character trait that the SEAL did not curse. Once on the set, Berg organized a gathering of the SEAL community - this included family and friends of the deceased SEALs. "Most directors don't go that deep, that hard, that dirty. "He was one of the last civilians to be able to do that and that brought an editorial perspective which is quite unusual," says Foster. The two bonded over a road trip from Luttrell's Texas ranch to the New Mexico set.įoster was impressed that the film's director, Peter Berg, was granted permission and accepted the challenge of being embedded with the SEALs before shooting.
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