An action-packed film about the takedown of al-Queda’s leader, Seal Team Six: The Raid on Osama Bin Ladenfollows a group of Navy Seals as they take on the mission of a lifetime, and is the first movie that was made on the mission to get Osama Bin Laden. This version of the story is now out on Blu-ray, DVD and available on Netflix. We had a chance to chat with Director John Stockwell and Producer Nicolas Chartier about what sets their movie apart from others on the subject.
apart from others on the subject.
Nicolas: We had done Hurt Locker before and wanted to find a good action story. [We had] an idea of doing a movie about Navy Seals [and wanted] to make a good thriller.
John: When Nick was working on this, before I even came on board, it was before Matt Bissononnette’s book, No Easy Day, or the Mark Bowden book or the Peter Bergen book. It was long before any of those accounts of the mission had come out. He and the screenwriter, Kendall Lampkin, were working from their sources. Then, I came in, and we were working from, sort of, “off the record” sources. There just wasn’t as much information out in the public domain as there is now. Some of it we just had to conjecture about and some of it we had to make the best judgment based on the information we had, so we were happy when certain things came out and it lined up with actual details of the raid. I think, unlike Zero Dark Thirty, which focuses much more on the CIA, our movie focuses more on the military and the local nationals on the ground in Pakistan. That was the story we chose—to really emphasize the role of the Seal team and less of the CIA.
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