The production team got on board the survivor, Brendan McDounough and Pat McCarty, a former Hotshot, to serve as consultants and educate the cast and crew on wildfires. Josh Brolin played Eric Marsh, the head firefighter of the Granite Mountain Hotshots, Jeff Bridges in an unrecognizable role played Duane Steinbrink, the fire chief of Prescott’s wildland division, Jennifer Connelly as Amanda Marsh, Eric Marsh’s wife, and Miles Teller as B rendan McDounough, the only survivor from the tragedy. The film portrays how they were bonded in a very strong friendship of loyalty and kindness, they became brothers to each other. These wildfire firefighters don’t run away from danger they run into it, protecting the community, nature and everything in between with honor and bravery.

The film dives into their relationship and struggles within their group as well as with their families and how bizarre and distressful is the life of these families. To date it has been the deadliest firefighting event since the September 11 attacks which killed over three hundred firefighters. It tells the story of the 2013 tragedy in Arizona where 19 members of the Granite Mountain Hotshots, an elite group of wildland firefighters in Prescott Arizona, died after they were blazed over by flames from the Yarnell Hill Fire. ‘Only the Brave’ is the heartbreaking true story about real life heroes.

Only the brave cast and crew