It was a true pleasure to have Rod Lurie as a guest on the Podcast. A movie that will forever be remembered as a seminal film about the regular boots on the ground soldier who serves and sacrifices in a true story of the Brotherhood of arms. This movie will rock you to the core with emotion and give thanks that such courage and men lived and live.  -Gaby


Rod Lurie is the director of the “The Outpost,” released July 2020, starring ScottEastwood, Caleb Landry Jones, and Orlando Bloom. The film, based on CNN chiefcorrespondent Jake Tapper’s bestselling book of the same name, tells the true story ofthe events leading up to and including the Battle of Kamdesh in Afghanistan, wherea small unit of U.S. soldiers defended against an overwhelming force of Talibanfighters in what was one of the bloodiest American engagements of the Afghan War.The battle resulted in two living service members, Ty Carter and Clint Romesha, beingawarded the Medal of Honor — the first time that had happened in fifty years.

Previously Lurie wrote and directed the widely-praised Academy Award and GoldenGlobe Award nominated political thriller “The Contender,” starring Joan Allen, JeffBridges, Gary Oldman and Christian Slater. The film was also honored by theBroadcast Film Critics with the first-ever Alan J. Pakula Award. He also wrote anddirected the films “Straw Dogs,” a remake of the 1971 classic starring James Marsden,Kate Bosworth, and Alexander Skarsgard, “Nothing But the Truth,” starring KateBeckinsale, Alan Alda, and Matt Dillon, “Resurrecting the Champ,” starring Samuel L.Jackson and Josh Hartnett. Additionally, he created and executive-produced “Lineof Fire,” a one-hour FBI drama for ABC, and directed the feature film “The LastCastle,“ which starred Robert Redford, James Gandolfini, and Mark Ruffalo.In television, Lurie created the series “Commander In Chief,” which was nominatedfor the Best Drama Series Golden Globe, and for which Geena Davis won the BestActress Golden Globe for her depiction of the first female President of the UnitedStates.Before he segued to film making.

 Lurie graduated from the United States MilitaryAcademy at West Point in 1984 and went on to serve for four years as a Combat Armsofficer in the U.S. Army. After the military, Lurie first enjoyed success as a film critic andentertainment reporter, breaking into journalism as a reporter for the New York DailyNews, and was also a film critic and interviewer for Channel 12 in Fairfield,VOTE for the OUTPOST on Rotten Tomatoes and give them a high rating! https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/the_outpost_2020