Stunning Movie Puts You On Front Lines

‘This is it: Real life, real heroes’

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DREW ZAHN

Prepare to see the face of war like you’ve never seen it before.

A new film expanding across the nation right now is no mere dramatization, no product of Hollywood actors, no government propaganda piece – but instead the actual footage from both American and Taliban fighters in the midst of one of the most heated and desperate battles of the war in Afghanistan.

Christian Tureaud, co-director and producer of “The Hornet’s Nest,” told WND what makes his film so incredibly unique … and heart-wrenching.

“It’s not a movie to entertain, with actors and special effects and all these canned storylines,” Tureaud said. “We wanted to make an immersive, first-person experience. We want to take the audience by the shirt and have them be there, with the troops, and for an hour and a half have them experience it the way the soldiers experience it, as close as they can.

“The reaction we have gotten back from the soldiers and the Marines has been overwhelmingly positive, thanking us, saying, ‘Finally, somebody is telling the story without a political agenda,’” Tureaud told WND. “We wanted it to be apolitical. We wanted this to be a celebration of America and freedom and what that stands for. ‘Freedom ain’t free.’ You get to see the costs and the risks for freedom and the sacrifices these men and women are making to volunteer to go do this. We show the heroism, the bravery and the brotherhood, I feel in a way no one has ever been able to share it because it’s for real. There are no actors. There’s no script. This is it: real life, real heroes.”

A film decades in the making

Tureaud explained the film actually began over 35 years ago, when Mike Boettcher began covering war zones as a journalist embedded with the troops.

“He has been the pre-eminent conflict journalist of the last 35 years,” Tureaud said. “Everywhere there’s been a war, an uprising, a takeover, he’s been there to cover it for CNN, NBC and now ABC.

“He was so good at what he did he was never stateside,” Tureaud continued, “so his wife divorced him, his son resented him and he really lost his family because of his war correspondence and his care for the soldiers and the Marines and covering their stories.

“But now, fast forward 35 years,” Tureaud told WND, “and Mike’s son, Carlos, comes to his dad and says, ‘I want to know you, I want to know why you chose the work over me. So I am going with you to Afghanistan with or without your permission.’”

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