They pass and become the Granite Mountain Hotshots. The crew trains hard and is finally deployed to a wildfire for evaluation. When his daughter is born, he wants to provide for her, so he interviews with Eric, who hires him despite the reservations of some of the crew. When he is arrested for larceny, his mother kicks him out of the house. His ex-girlfriend Natalie is pregnant with his baby, but she feels that he is too irresponsible to be in her life. This frustrates Eric's wife Amanda, who resents how the time commitment already keeps Eric from wanting to start a family.īrendan McDonough is unemployed and abuses drugs. Duane warns that no other municipal crew in the country has that status and they will have to commit to a longer working season. Eric speaks to fire chief Duane Steinbrink regarding his desire for Crew 7 to become certified hotshots. The fire behaves as Eric anticipated, and the neighborhood is destroyed. Due to Crew 7's status as municipal firefighters, Eric's prediction that the fire will threaten a nearby neighborhood is ignored by a hotshot crew from California. The film is dedicated to the Granite Mountain Hotshots and their families.Įric Marsh, superintendent of Fire and Rescue Crew 7 in Prescott, Arizona, receives a call to a wildfire. However, it received positive reviews, with praise for the cast and the film's touching tribute to its subjects. The film was a box-office bomb, grossing just $26.3 million worldwide against a $38 million budget. Only the Brave was released by Columbia Pictures in North America and by Summit Entertainment in other territories on October 20, 2017. Principal photography began in New Mexico in June 2016. It features an ensemble cast, including Josh Brolin, James Badge Dale, Jeff Bridges, Miles Teller, Alex Russell, Taylor Kitsch, Ben Hardy, Thad Luckinbill, Geoff Stults, Scott Haze, Andie MacDowell, and Jennifer Connelly. The film tells the story of the Granite Mountain Hotshots, an elite crew of firefighters from Prescott, Arizona who lost 19 of 20 members while fighting the Yarnell Hill Fire in June 2013, and is dedicated to their memory. Only the Brave is a 2017 American biographical drama film directed by Joseph Kosinski, and written by Ken Nolan and Eric Warren Singer, based on the GQ article 'No Exit' by Sean Flynn.

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