The Outpost
A team of American soldiers, including
1st Lieutenant Benjamin D. Keating
(Orlando Bloom) and Staff Sergeant Clint
Romesha (Scott Eastwood), stationed at
Combat Outpost Keating in north-eastern
Afghanistan, battle a force of hundreds of
enemy insurgents from the Taliban.
FIVE FACTS:
- This film is directed and scripted by Rod
Lurie, whose previous directing and writing
credits include 2007’s Resurrecting the
Champ and 2011’s Straw Dogs. - Lurie was an air defense artillery officer in
the US Army in the 1980s. - The Outpost is based on Jake Tapper’s 2012
non-fiction book The Outpost: An Untold
Story of American Valor, focusing on the
real-life Battle of Kamdesh that took place in
October 2009. - Cast members Scott Eastwood, Milo Gibson
and James Jagger are sons of, respectively,
Clint Eastwood, Mel Gibson and Mick Jagger. - The film had been set to premiere at this
year’s South by Southwest Film Festival,
but the COVID-19 pandemic prompted the
event’s cancellation.
Rotten Tomatoes
90 %
by Rod Lurie
Genre: Action & Adventure
Released: 2020
Price: $14.9972 Ratings