My grandparents are career military and served in the war and my uncle, so there’s a family legacy there. I’d been researching it for a long time though, had been a student of history, a student of the war.
Was this movie also something you had been working on or was it on the horizon?ĭavid Ayer: I wrote this script after I finished principal photography on “Sabotage.” I basically wrote this in two weeks. Since Ayer’s name had been attached to bringing DC Comics’ Suicide Squad to the big screen (which has now officially been announced for a summer 2015 release) we also tried to learn more about that and ended up quickly being shut down faster than a tank that runs out of gas.Ĭ: When we spoke last, you either had shot “Sabotage” or were getting ready to shoot it. 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. Ayer’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.