Academy
Award® winner Angelina Jolie directs and produces Unbroken, an epic drama that
follows the incredible life of Olympian and war hero Louis “Louie” Zamperini
(Jack O’Connell) who, along with two other crewmen, survived in a raft for 47
days after a near-fatal plane crash in WWII—only to be caught by the Japanese
Navy and sent to a prisoner-of-war camp.
Angelina
Jolie & Louis Zamperini, ‘Unbroken’ Olympian and war hero, dies at 97
Adapted
from Laura Hillenbrand’s (“Seabiscuit: An American Legend”) enormously popular
book, Unbroken brings to the big screen Zamperini’s unbelievable and inspiring
true story about the resilient power of the human spirit
Starring
alongside O’Connell are Domhnall Gleeson and Finn Wittrock as Phil and Mac—the
airmen with whom Zamperini endured perilous weeks adrift in the open
Pacific—Garrett Hedlund and John Magaro as fellow POWs who find an unexpected
camaraderie during their internment, Alex Russell as Zamperini’s brother, Pete,
and in his English-language feature debut, Japanese actor Miyavi as the brutal
camp guard known only to the men as “The Bird.”
The
film is produced by Jolie, as well as Matthew Baer (City by the Sea), Erwin
Stoff (The Day the Earth Stood Still) and Clayton Townsend (This Is 40).
Leading the accomplished behind-the-scenes crew is 10-time Oscar®-nominated
cinematographer Roger Deakins (Skyfall).
Academy
Award® winners Joel and Ethan Coen (No Country for Old Men) rewrote the
screenplay from earlier drafts by William Nicholson (Les Misérables) and
Richard LaGravenese (HBO’s Behind the Candelabra).
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