Unbroken

Unbroken

Sometimes fate is ready to bestow wealth and fame at first, but in the next moment it all slips through the fingers. After performing at the Olympic Games in 1936, Louis Zamperini immediately gained fame from Hitler himself, although he failed the final test. However, what promised to be a bright future turned black with a bloody crust when World War II began. A young man goes to the front, which prepares tests that are much more difficult than Olympic training. During a dogfight, Zampolini crashes in Japan. Barely surviving in the middle of the endless ocean together with two other sufferers, the runner plunges into the horrors of captivity. Read more The rights to the film about the runner Louis Semperini were acquired by Universal Studios back in 1957. Then the drama was to be directed by Tony Curtis, which, however, dragged on for a long time. Some time after buying the rights, "Invincible" became interested in Nicolas Cage. But the project was delayed until 2010, when Laura Hillenbrand's book became a bestseller. A year later, in 2011, Universal Pictures acquired the rights to the book and decided to put the film into production no matter what. After Angelina Jolie sat down in the director's chair, at that time having already completed the film "In the Land of Blood and Honey" (2011), Joel and Ethan Coen took up the script. However, they rewrote an already ready draft. It became known that Brad Pitt's wife would be the director on September 30, 2013. Actor Takamasa Ishihara, in order to truthfully show the cruel attitude of his character Watanabe to Zamperini, tried to avoid contact with actor Jack O'Connell on the set. It's also interesting that the photo of Louis Zamperini's girlfriend (wife) that O'Connell's character is holding is real. Angelina Jolie received the card from the runner's daughter. Initially, Dane DeHaan was supposed to play the main character in "Invincible".