Jai Courtney
A Good Day to Die Hard’s Jai Courtney is going to be busy working for actors turned war movie directors, as he has signed on to star in two war projects back-to-back, Unbroken and The Water Diviner, for Angelina Jolie and Russell Crowe, according to Deadline.
Courtney will first shoot director Angelina Jolie’s Unbroken, which has already started filming. The movieis based on the story of Louis Zamperini (Jack O’Connell), who survived after being shot down in the Pacific during World War II, only to be imprisoned and tortured by the Japanese when he was finally rescued. Jai Courtney plays Hugh ‘Cup’ Cuppernell, a veteran pilot who is involved in a gunfight alongside Zamperini.
The actor will then move straight onto The Water Diviner. It’s Russell Crowe’s directorial debut, and he’ll also play an Australian father who travels to Turkey on a mission to find his three sons’ bodies, who died during in World War I. Courtney will play Lt. Colonel Cecil Hilton, who is tasked with identifying the thousands of soldiers killed at Gallipoli, and reluctantly allows the father to conduct his search.
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