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. Director Jolie began shooting some of
the most dramatic and challenging scenes on Wednesday, October 16, on location
far out at sea in Moreton Bay, Australia, with Zamperini (O'Connell) and his
fellow airmen-Phil (Domhnall Gleeson) and Mac (Finn Wittrock)-having impossibly
survived being adrift in the open Pacific for several weeks. Working with
cameras on a floating rig in choppy waters and braving the elements, with
actors dieting for months to appear as depleted as their characters, Jolie
completed a successful first day of a location shoot that promises to be
rigorous and uniquely challenging. 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,
Gleeson and Wittrock are 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,
Erwin Stoff, and Clayton and is unlike any other typical war movie.
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