13 Hours: The Secret Soldiers of Benghazi - Trivia, Questions and Fun Facts

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[lonnie]

Michael Bay's lowest grossing film as of 2016.

[maureen]

The original cut of the film was four hours long.

[bernice]

Sean Smith's role was that of information management - essentially the organization and indexing of data collected by the embassy, the CIA, and intelligence assets.

[mathew]

After spending 24 hours together, the real Jack Silva told James Badge Dale that he was the right man to tell this story and to trust his instincts.

[charlie]

Michael Bay said he was attracted to the project because he'd used veterans in all of his films, as actors and technical advisors, and felt he would be uniquely qualified to tell their story.

[kyle]

During the rescue attempt, there is a scene when a Libyan fight introduces himself to John Krasinkis character 'Jack Silva', he states "Hello Captain America". John Krasinski auditioned to play Captain America for the Marvel Cinematic Universe but the role eventually was given to Chris Evans

[violet]

Received an "A" CinemaScore.

[kristen]

In the film, the Ambassador is depicted as reporting that people were taking photos of the compound. On the day of the attack Sean Smith (who ends up with the Ambassador) messaged a friend, "Assuming we don't die tonight. We saw one of our 'police' that guard the compound taking pictures."

[aaron]

Toby Stephens was a good friend of the real-life Jack Silva.

[kylie]

Glen Doherty was good friends with Brandon Webb, who was a sniper instructor for the Navy SEALs. Webb trained both Marcus Luttrell and Chris Kyle.

[duane]

Premiered at AT&T Stadium in Dallas, Texas.

[melinda]

According to Pablo Schreiber (who plays Kris "Tanto" Paronto) in a January 13, 2016 interview, he received three injuries during the course of making 13 Hours. To stay in shape for the role he would lift weights and ended up injuring his back while doing dead lifts. He later tore his MCL cliff jumping and then a couple days later, broke his wrist. Schreiber received the broken wrist from sitting on the open tailgate of a pickup truck. When the driver of the truck gunned the engine, Schreiber flew off the back which resulted in his injury. He had to wear a hard shell brace that was flesh toned to conceal the injury. Schreiber stated they took out the brace in post production but there are still some scenes where it is visible. Particularly the scenes where the operatives are guarding the annex.

[scarlett]

This is Michael Bay's third drama film based on real-life events, after Pearl Harbor (2001) and Pain & Gain (2013).

[kenzi]

The opening text says virtually all foreign embassies in Libya closed. The embassy of Malta, Libya's northern island neighbor, stayed open throughout this period. Malta is also where much of the movie was filmed.

[charlie]

Sean Smith was an avid gamer. His favorite massive multi-player online role-playing game (MMORPG) was EVE Online, where he attained almost legendary status as the character "Vile Rat." His death resulted in several community tributes online.

[ruby]

Michael Bay's hair was burnt while filming an action sequence in Malta.

[wesley]

Michael Bay wanted to shoot on film, and cinematographer Dion Beebe wanted to shoot digitally. Bay ultimately accepted shooting digitally because of the number of night scenes and the tight production schedule. Some of the movie did end up being shot on film, with Bay operating his personal Arriflex 235 camera.

[gabriel]

According to Mark Geist in a January 18, 2016 interview on the Mark Levin radio program, the mortar rounds that hit the roof had a kill radius of 21 feet, meaning anybody within 21 feet of a round was as good as dead.