Warrior Mindset

#21: Thank You For Your Service--Jason Hall

10.27.2017 - By US Navy SEAL Brad Nagel and co-host Dannie StrablePlay

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Jason Hall is an Academy Award-nominated screenwriter for Clint Eastwood's Academy Award-winning film, American Sniper. Jason's film directing debut comes this week as the movie Thank You For Your Service hits the box office.  DreamWorks Pictures' Thank You for Your Service follows a group of U.S. soldiers returning from Iraq who struggles to integrate back into family and civilian life, while living with the memory of a war that threatens to destroy them long after they've left the battlefield. Starring an ensemble cast led by Miles Teller, Haley Bennett, Joe Cole, Amy Schumer, Beulah Koale, Scott Haze, Keisha Castle-Hughes, Brad Beyer, Omar J. Dorsey and Jayson Warner Smith, the drama is based on the bestselling book by Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter and author David Finkel. Jason Hall, who wrote the screenplay of American Sniper, makes his directorial debut with Thank You for Your Service and also serves as its screenwriter. Jason Hall was also a champion wrestler in high school and college. He discusses the humorous story of Bradley Cooper instigating a wrestling match and Navy SEAL on the set of American Sniper. Listen to the episode to find out who won. 

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