All You Need To Know About "12 STRONG" Movie

In the wake of Sept. 11, Capt. Mitch Nelson leads a U.S. Special Forces team into Afghanistan for an extremely dangerous mission. Once there, the soldiers develop an uneasy partnership with the Northern Alliance to take down the Taliban and its al-Qaida allies. Outgunned and outnumbered, Nelson and his forces face overwhelming odds in a fight against a ruthless enemy that takes no prisoners.
Director: Nicolai Fuglsig
Based on: Horse Soldiers; by Doug Stanton
Producers: Jerry Bruckheimer, Thad Luckinbill
Music composed by: Lorne Balfe, Atli Örvarsson


On December 2, 2011, it was announced that producer Jerry Bruckheimer had taken out the script by Ted Tally and rewritten by Peter Craig with Nicolai Fuglsig attached to direct, which was bought by Walt Disney Pictures in 2009 for Bruckheimer, based on the Doug Stanton's non-fiction book Horse Soldiers.[14] On March 29, 2016, Deadline reported that Bruckheimer had officially hired Fuglsig to make his feature film directorial debut, which would be co-financed and produced by Molly Smith, Trent Luckinbill and Thad Luckinbill through Black Label Media, along with Bruckheimer's Jerry Bruckheimer Films.

On September 30, 2016, Chris Hemsworth and Michael Shannon were cast in the film, and later on November 1, Michael Peña also joined the film.On November 3, 2016, athlete turned actor Trevante Rhodes was cast in the film.On November 14, 2016, Austin Stowell was cast in the film to play Staff Sergeant Fred Falls, an American soldier on the elite U.S. Special Forces team. Lionsgate would handle the film's distribution.On November 15, 2016, Austin Hébert was cast to play SFC Pat Essex, the intellectual and engineer of the team, and the same day it was reported that Ben O'Toole had also been cast for an unspecified role. On November 17, 2016, Variety reported that Navid Negahban was cast to play General Abdul Rashid Dostum in the film. Elsa Pataky was revealed to be starring in the film in December 2016, while on February 3, 2017, Deadline reported that Rob Riggle joined the film to play an Army Colonel, Max Bowers

Principal photography began in early-January 2017 in New Mexico. Mines near Orogrande, New Mexico were used. Later the shooting took place in Socorro, where it ended on January 26 after eight days of filming. The film will also be shot in Alamogordo, where it would use the White Sands National Monument as shooting location.

The initial release date of the movie is January 9 2018 (USA)