McCoy and Waugh–backed by Bandito Brothers, their Culver City, CA full-service production facility–filmed on three continents, using aerial, ground, and underwater shots of helicopters, yachts, submarines, armored vehicles, assault weaponry, and explosions for less than $20 million.Ĭrazy idea #1: Don’t use stars.
Navy’s special operations force, its culture and high-tech tactics, but a new streamlined type of filmmaking. There’s no way an actor could really portray that.” The only way to properly communicate that brotherhood, sacrifice, and complexity of character was to use the actual men. All the stories were woven from actual events and acts of valor. “We set out to create a completely different type of action film–the first real authentic action film. “We felt we had to portray the community in an authentic way,” says McCoy. The film was shot within real military exercises–using live ammunition–to accurately depict how they conduct their battles, and how that fighting looks from the inside. But many of the scenes are drawn from actual situations faced during high-risk missions. Navy special operations unit that tracks a global terrorist network. 24 via distributor Relativity Media, is a charged fictionalized narrative of an eight-man U.S. Act of Valor, which arrives in theaters Feb.