February 3, 2025 • 8 mins
In the heart-pounding military thriller Valiant One, a routine mission spirals into a fight for survival when a US Army helicopter crashes deep within North Korean territory. With their communications equipment destroyed, Captain Edward Brockman (Chase Stokes) and Specialist Selby (Lana Condor) must lead the team through hostile terrain, cut off from US military support as they attempt a daring escape across the treacherous Demilitarized Zone. Valiant One arrives exclusively in theaters nationwide on Friday, January 31.Chase Stokes is best known for his leading performance in Netflix’s global phenomenon series Outer Banks as John B., a teenager who enlists his best friends to hunt for a legendary treasure linked to his father's disappearance. The fourth season debuted in October 2024 and took over the Netflix Top Ten charts, garnering 1.4 billion minutes streamed. Chase won the People's Choice Awards for Best Drama TV Star of 2021. He also starred opposite Joey King in Netflix’s dystopian fantasy Uglies from director McG based on Scott Westerfeld’s international bestseller of the same name. Chase will next be seen in Nick Cassavetes’ Marked Men, the YA romance adapted from the New York Timesbestseller “Rule,” which arrives in select theaters in January and will be released digitally in February 2025.Valiant One was directed by Hollywood veteran Steve Barnett. As a film producer and studio executive for over 25 years, Barnett has built an impressive track record of financially and creatively successful films that generated global box office revenues topping $1 billion. Barnett has produced, developed or supervised over 25 feature films covering all genre and budget ranges including the box office smash 300, Paramount's family film The Spiderwick Chronicles, the Frank Darabont/Stephen King horror film, The Mist and the fantasy film Come Away starring Angelina Jolie and David Oyelowo to name just a few.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Hello on Good morning everybody.
Speaker 2 (00:01):
Good morning.
Speaker 1 (00:03):
Hey you guys. I want to talk to you about
this movie because it's going to touch more than just
me because my mother lost two brothers in the Korean
War and for me to be inside this movie here
Valiant One, it gives me answers. It gives me that's
still that sense of hope that they didn't just hit
the ground. They actually there was a They had to
face their inner warriors and become strong. This is such
(00:27):
a great movie.
Speaker 3 (00:30):
Wow, thank you, Thank you many.
Speaker 1 (00:33):
To put it together, you had to do some homework.
This didn't just happen.
Speaker 2 (00:39):
No, you know, we worked on this for about fourteen years.
We had a Blinking green Light about ten years ago
with a different studio and the seth Rogan movie The
Interview came out. If you remember that film that made
fun of North Korea. It was a pretty hilarious film.
But North Korea hacked Sony that our cap the emails
(01:01):
and created a whole bunch of chaos and the moment
that happened, our distributor got scared and stopped the movie.
So yeah, we had plenty of time to do research,
and we also had, you know, on set, my high
school buddy who was the inspiration for the story. He's
a Navy seal for twenty five years to master Chief.
He was with us every single day, Wow, and brought
(01:24):
that authenticity and the culture and all the stuff that
our cast absorbed like a sponge and put on screen.
Speaker 1 (01:30):
Chase, I was going to ask you about that authenticity
because I mean, it really does put me on that
ground with them. I mean's just the everything about the
body language, the challenges to face the fight and to
not run away from what was going on. How did
you prep forward?
Speaker 3 (01:47):
Yeah, I mean truthfully, it was in the script and
this was a character that was really well written, and
I immediately kind of saw the world around him, and
you know, I think with every there's a great director
behind him, and Steve and I just really didn't leave
a stone unturned with how we wanted this character to
(02:07):
come to life. You know, he starts out very pessimistic
and looking at it through a lens that nobody else
is looking through, and it's he sort of forced into
a position of leadership, and it's about whether or not
he wants to take that responsibility and become the leader
that he doesn't know that he can be and you
know it was. It was one of those things that
(02:28):
I had somebody like Todd in my corner and also
had Steve behind the lens, who was really really just
a great asset to help bring this film in this
character of life.
Speaker 1 (02:39):
You know, one of the things we never talked about, Steve,
is what's going through your imagination when you're looking into
the lens of that camera, because I mean, we're talking
about underdogs here. For us to believe in that, you
had to see it first and then we get to
see the hero on the inside.
Speaker 2 (02:54):
Yeah, I've always been a fan of the hero's journey
and the reluctant hero's journey. And you know, I also
am a big, big band and supporter of our men
and women in uniform. So but one of the things
that we did, you know, we did a lot of
research on is that the non combat soldiers, there's a
there's the majority of soldiers are not on the front lines.
(03:15):
They're working regular jobs to support to support our country
and to support our soldiers on the front line. So
it was it was a cool experience to sort of
get under the hood of the military a little bit
and see what the regular soldiers are like and then
throw them into a situation that they're not trained for
and have to use a different muscle. In this case,
(03:37):
Chase plays Brockman, who is more of a cerebral soldier.
He sits behind a keyboard working on tech, which is
critical to our world these days. But he's not he's
not an on the ground guy. So when he's thrown
into that situation and then obviously things go completely awry,
he has to, you know, add to his cerebral muscle
(03:57):
the actual physical part of combat, and that's a little
rusty in this movie. So he has to find has
to find that hero inside of him.
Speaker 1 (04:07):
I've been with many men and women who have served
this nation in the Korean War, and they, in my face,
they will say it is the forgotten war, and a
movie like this says, no, it's not. We're going to
bring it forward so we can start talking about this war.
Speaker 2 (04:21):
Yeah, I think a lot of people. I mean, look,
we all see on the news all the time about
North Korea and the threat that they posed the world,
but also South Korea and Seoul in particular. It was
an interesting but it hasn't really been seen much on films,
so I was really interested in exploring that the tension
(04:42):
over there and the dynamic that that creates around the world.
Speaker 1 (04:46):
Because I am a third degree black belt in taekwondo,
which is Korean. The scene with the Korean farmer that
really opened up my eyes because one of the things
that we learned is how they were able to use
their own tools as weapons. This scene right here really
says a lot about the history and the culture.
Speaker 2 (05:05):
M Yeah, go ahead, go ahead, Chase No.
Speaker 3 (05:10):
I think that that was one of my you know,
when I initially read the script, that was one of
my favorite scenes. And I think a lot of that
stemming from, you know, in society, you know, we feel
disconnected from a lot of the world that we feel
connected through the lens of social media, and I think
that seeing a soldier, you know, a sergeant in the
(05:31):
US Army be able to make the decision to put
his weapon down and try to connect with somebody through
the eyes and through the heart and through the soul
and realize that they don't want to do what it
seems like they might be doing. It was just a
really beautiful thing to portray, but also to give the
audience that although we don't speak the same language, although
(05:53):
we grew up in entirely different ideologies. We can still
connect on this one thing. We all appreciate the idea
of humanity. Learn more as you know the film progresses.
But although it's a world away, it's you know, we're
still beating with the same heart and have the same brain.
Speaker 1 (06:08):
To some extent, my sabanym called that verbal taekwondo. In
other words, we could use our words and not our
hands and feet, but verbal taekwondo is used every day.
We just don't call it that.
Speaker 3 (06:20):
I'm going to take that, want to put it in
my back bucket, not taekwondo.
Speaker 1 (06:25):
Steve, you actually had the actors use the weapons to
get the experience. I mean that right there. That's a
smart move because not everybody understands that kick back in
the shoulder or what or even just carrying things.
Speaker 2 (06:37):
Yeah, I you know, that was a really important element
to this whole thing. In fact, so much so that
Todd Charbotte, our tech advisor, my buddy from high school
who's in Navy seal for thirty five years, he suggested,
the moment they get off the cast, the moment they
get into town off the plane, let's bring them in
have them carry the weapon, feel it and feel what
(06:59):
it feels like with the recoil and the sound, all
of the entire experience, and then we were going to
make a decision as a team if we were going
to use live rounds, live blank rounds, or if we
were going to do it digitally. And every single every
single cast member was like, we we want to do blanks.
(07:19):
We want to actually feel it and absorb and use
that energy in our performance. So it was a good
call by my guy, Todd Sharper.
Speaker 1 (07:27):
Where can viewers go to find this movie so that
we can get people to start talking about this movie.
Speaker 3 (07:35):
In a theater near you. There you go, it's now
and you go on Google and look up a showtime. Sure,
there's a theater close by that'll be playing our movie.
Speaker 1 (07:46):
Well, this is in the first time you guys have
been together, so I'm looking forward to to the next
journey as well, because you guys definitely make a great team.
Speaker 3 (07:53):
Awesome, thank you, it's cool.
Speaker 1 (07:55):
Will you guys be brilliant today?
Speaker 2 (07:56):
Okay, you too? Do I get us
Hello on Good morning everybody.
Speaker 2 (00:01):
Good morning.
Speaker 1 (00:03):
Hey you guys. I want to talk to you about
this movie because it's going to touch more than just
me because my mother lost two brothers in the Korean
War and for me to be inside this movie here
Valiant One, it gives me answers. It gives me that's
still that sense of hope that they didn't just hit
the ground. They actually there was a They had to
face their inner warriors and become strong. This is such
(00:27):
a great movie.
Speaker 3 (00:30):
Wow, thank you, Thank you many.
Speaker 1 (00:33):
To put it together, you had to do some homework.
This didn't just happen.
Speaker 2 (00:39):
No, you know, we worked on this for about fourteen years.
We had a Blinking green Light about ten years ago
with a different studio and the seth Rogan movie The
Interview came out. If you remember that film that made
fun of North Korea. It was a pretty hilarious film.
But North Korea hacked Sony that our cap the emails
(01:01):
and created a whole bunch of chaos and the moment
that happened, our distributor got scared and stopped the movie.
So yeah, we had plenty of time to do research,
and we also had, you know, on set, my high
school buddy who was the inspiration for the story. He's
a Navy seal for twenty five years to master Chief.
He was with us every single day, Wow, and brought
(01:24):
that authenticity and the culture and all the stuff that
our cast absorbed like a sponge and put on screen.
Speaker 1 (01:30):
Chase, I was going to ask you about that authenticity
because I mean, it really does put me on that
ground with them. I mean's just the everything about the
body language, the challenges to face the fight and to
not run away from what was going on. How did
you prep forward?
Speaker 3 (01:47):
Yeah, I mean truthfully, it was in the script and
this was a character that was really well written, and
I immediately kind of saw the world around him, and
you know, I think with every there's a great director
behind him, and Steve and I just really didn't leave
a stone unturned with how we wanted this character to
(02:07):
come to life. You know, he starts out very pessimistic
and looking at it through a lens that nobody else
is looking through, and it's he sort of forced into
a position of leadership, and it's about whether or not
he wants to take that responsibility and become the leader
that he doesn't know that he can be and you
know it was. It was one of those things that
(02:28):
I had somebody like Todd in my corner and also
had Steve behind the lens, who was really really just
a great asset to help bring this film in this
character of life.
Speaker 1 (02:39):
You know, one of the things we never talked about, Steve,
is what's going through your imagination when you're looking into
the lens of that camera, because I mean, we're talking
about underdogs here. For us to believe in that, you
had to see it first and then we get to
see the hero on the inside.
Speaker 2 (02:54):
Yeah, I've always been a fan of the hero's journey
and the reluctant hero's journey. And you know, I also
am a big, big band and supporter of our men
and women in uniform. So but one of the things
that we did, you know, we did a lot of
research on is that the non combat soldiers, there's a
there's the majority of soldiers are not on the front lines.
(03:15):
They're working regular jobs to support to support our country
and to support our soldiers on the front line. So
it was it was a cool experience to sort of
get under the hood of the military a little bit
and see what the regular soldiers are like and then
throw them into a situation that they're not trained for
and have to use a different muscle. In this case,
(03:37):
Chase plays Brockman, who is more of a cerebral soldier.
He sits behind a keyboard working on tech, which is
critical to our world these days. But he's not he's
not an on the ground guy. So when he's thrown
into that situation and then obviously things go completely awry,
he has to, you know, add to his cerebral muscle
(03:57):
the actual physical part of combat, and that's a little
rusty in this movie. So he has to find has
to find that hero inside of him.
Speaker 1 (04:07):
I've been with many men and women who have served
this nation in the Korean War, and they, in my face,
they will say it is the forgotten war, and a
movie like this says, no, it's not. We're going to
bring it forward so we can start talking about this war.
Speaker 2 (04:21):
Yeah, I think a lot of people. I mean, look,
we all see on the news all the time about
North Korea and the threat that they posed the world,
but also South Korea and Seoul in particular. It was
an interesting but it hasn't really been seen much on films,
so I was really interested in exploring that the tension
(04:42):
over there and the dynamic that that creates around the world.
Speaker 1 (04:46):
Because I am a third degree black belt in taekwondo,
which is Korean. The scene with the Korean farmer that
really opened up my eyes because one of the things
that we learned is how they were able to use
their own tools as weapons. This scene right here really
says a lot about the history and the culture.
Speaker 2 (05:05):
M Yeah, go ahead, go ahead, Chase No.
Speaker 3 (05:10):
I think that that was one of my you know,
when I initially read the script, that was one of
my favorite scenes. And I think a lot of that
stemming from, you know, in society, you know, we feel
disconnected from a lot of the world that we feel
connected through the lens of social media, and I think
that seeing a soldier, you know, a sergeant in the
(05:31):
US Army be able to make the decision to put
his weapon down and try to connect with somebody through
the eyes and through the heart and through the soul
and realize that they don't want to do what it
seems like they might be doing. It was just a
really beautiful thing to portray, but also to give the
audience that although we don't speak the same language, although
(05:53):
we grew up in entirely different ideologies. We can still
connect on this one thing. We all appreciate the idea
of humanity. Learn more as you know the film progresses.
But although it's a world away, it's you know, we're
still beating with the same heart and have the same brain.
Speaker 1 (06:08):
To some extent, my sabanym called that verbal taekwondo. In
other words, we could use our words and not our
hands and feet, but verbal taekwondo is used every day.
We just don't call it that.
Speaker 3 (06:20):
I'm going to take that, want to put it in
my back bucket, not taekwondo.
Speaker 1 (06:25):
Steve, you actually had the actors use the weapons to
get the experience. I mean that right there. That's a
smart move because not everybody understands that kick back in
the shoulder or what or even just carrying things.
Speaker 2 (06:37):
Yeah, I you know, that was a really important element
to this whole thing. In fact, so much so that
Todd Charbotte, our tech advisor, my buddy from high school
who's in Navy seal for thirty five years, he suggested,
the moment they get off the cast, the moment they
get into town off the plane, let's bring them in
have them carry the weapon, feel it and feel what
(06:59):
it feels like with the recoil and the sound, all
of the entire experience, and then we were going to
make a decision as a team if we were going
to use live rounds, live blank rounds, or if we
were going to do it digitally. And every single every
single cast member was like, we we want to do blanks.
(07:19):
We want to actually feel it and absorb and use
that energy in our performance. So it was a good
call by my guy, Todd Sharper.
Speaker 1 (07:27):
Where can viewers go to find this movie so that
we can get people to start talking about this movie.
Speaker 3 (07:35):
In a theater near you. There you go, it's now
and you go on Google and look up a showtime. Sure,
there's a theater close by that'll be playing our movie.
Speaker 1 (07:46):
Well, this is in the first time you guys have
been together, so I'm looking forward to to the next
journey as well, because you guys definitely make a great team.
Speaker 3 (07:53):
Awesome, thank you, it's cool.
Speaker 1 (07:55):
Will you guys be brilliant today?
Speaker 2 (07:56):
Okay, you too? Do I get us
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