While it has all the tank battles and firefights one might hope from a war movie–and they’re all quite spectacular– Fury is at its core, a character-driven film that shows what happens when Lerman’s Norman joins the others as the “new guy” trying to learn the intricacies of war with the horrifying realization that it’s literally “kill or be killed.” He also ends up with the crew of “Fury” when it breaks down leaving them in the path of an enormous SS battalion that’s closing in on them.Ĭ sat down with Ayer earlier this week for our third or fourth interview with the director. Having made the move from go-to Hollywood screenwriter to full-on director with 2005’s Harsh Times, starring a pre- Batman Begins Christian Bale no less, David Ayer has been fairly prolific in recent years with Street Kings, End of Watch and Sabotage, all dealing with some angle of law enforcement.Īyer’s latest movie Fury could be seen as a departure, being an epic World War II movie starring Brad Pitt, Shia LaBeouf, Logan Lerman, Michael Pena and Jon Bernthal (from “The Walking Dead”) as the crew of the tank nicknamed “Fury” fighting off the remaining Nazi forces in the final days of the war.
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