I did read the book, and then I read the actual script. Larry has been collaborating for years with Rod, how were you going to approach the score? Paul Merryman, the producer brought me in, and I made the film for my brothers. I wasn’t the original director, Sam Raimi was, and he bailed.
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I thought about making this movie about these guys, and the people who are in battle. I was in the peacetime army, I wasn’t ever actually in battle, but a lot of my classmates were, and when you go to reunions, and your classmates have had bullets fly past them, it makes you feel a bit small. I was in the service and am a graduate of the United States Military Academy at West Point. It was one of the most heroic battles of the Afghanistan War. It’s based on “The Outpost: An Untold Story of American Valor,” by Jake Tapper about the Battle of Kamdesh. Rod, what made you want to tell the story of “ The Outpost”? Once he heard her voice, Lurie had chosen his vocalist.īelow, Lurie, Groupé and Wilson talk with Variety about the song and the personal message behind the music.
He was introduced to Wilson, who has spent over eight years working on and recording her own music. Despite having offers from people, including a famous group, to sing the song, Lurie declined. Groupé added music to the lyrics, and the song’s evolution began. Lurie sent the lyrics to composer and frequent collaborator Larry Groupé, who also composed the film’s score. During that time, Lurie’s daughter pleaded with him to finish the film, “For Hunter.” Lurie went back to complete the film, and on the flight back to Bulgaria, he wrote the lyrics to “Everybody Cries.” As Lurie was in mid-production, his son, Hunter tragically died at the age of 27. The soaring ballad, which was co-written by Wilson, director Rod Lurie, and Larry Groupé, comes with a tragic story behind it. For singer, actress, producer Rita Wilson, “Everybody Cries,” her Oscar contender for Best Original Song, felt like a tribute to the mothers and female relatives of soldiers who were on the front line.
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