Lone Survivor
Summary
Mark Wahlberg ’s 10 - yr - old war film , Lone Survivor , finds new winner streaming on Netflix . Based on the nonfiction record , the 2013 war picture espouse Wahlberg asMarcus Luttrellalongside a squad of fellow Navy SEALs tax with tracking down the Taliban leader Ahmad Shah during the warfare in Afghanistan . Other than Wahlberg , the cast also includes Taylor Kitsch , Emile Hirsch , Ben Foster , and Eric Bana . Lone Survivorwas a box office collision , grossing $ 154 million on a $ 40 million budget , and went on to receive two Oscar nominations for Best Sound Editing and Best Sound Mixing .
Now , 10 years after it was a box office achiever , Wahlberg ’s war movie has found new winner streaming onNetflix . For the hebdomad of November 13 to November 19,Lone Survivorwas take in for 8 million hours and received 4 million total sight . This is good enough for 6th place , marking the movie ’s first week in Netflix ’s Global Top 10 .
Lone Survivor is inspired by the true story of four Navy sealskin on a mission gone ill-timed in Afghanistan to take out a Taliban drawing card .
Lone Survivor’s True Story Explained
The war movie is based on the 2007 book , Lone Survivor : The Eyewitness Account of Operation Redwing and the Lost Heroes of SEAL Team 10 , which was co - spell by Navy SEAL Marcus Luttrell and author Patrick Robinson . Written and directed by Peter Berg , the picture adjustment embroider the stillborn United States counter - guerilla missionary post known asOperation Red Wingsin which four Navy SEALs were tasked with tracking down the Taliban leader Ahmad Shah during the war in Afghanistan . Other than Marcus Luttrell , the team consisted of Michael Murphy , Matthew Axelson , and Danny Dietz .
As they make their elbow room towards his last known emplacement , the four - man team is discovered and ambushed by Shah ’s men , tragically resulting in the deaths of three of the SEALs . This sets up Luttrell as the nominal lone subsister of Operation Red Wings , and the remainder of the film draw the remarkable lengths he went to pull round . For his act of gallantry against Taliban attack aircraft during the operation , Luttrell was grant both the Navy Cross and Purple Heart . Through Wahlberg ’s performance , Lone Survivorprovides a visceral business relationship of Luttrell ’s unbelievable braveness and selection .
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