Devotion is a 2022 American biographical war film based on the 2015 book «Devotion: An Epic Story of Heroism, Friendship, and Sacrifice by Adam Makos».
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- Devotion is a 2022 American biographical war film.
- It was based on the 2015 book Devotion: An Epic Story of Heroism, Friendship, and Sacrifice by Adam Makos.
- Both the book and the movie retell the comradeship between naval officers Jesse Brown and Tom Hudner during the Korean War.
- It is directed by J. D. Dillard and written by Jake Crane and Jonathan Stewart.
- The film stars Jonathan Majors as Brown and Glen Powell as Hudner.
- Christina Jackson, Joe Jonas, Nick Hargrove, Spencer Neville, Thomas Sadoski, and Daren Kagasoff appear in supporting roles.
- Devotion premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival in IMAX at the Ontario Place Cinesphere on September 12, 2022.
- It was released in the United States on November 23, 2022.
- It received generally positive reviews from critics.
- Ensign Jesse L. Brown was the first African-American aviator for the US Navy.
- The US Navy named a ship in honor of Ensign Jesse L. Brown, the USS Jesse L. Brown FF1089. It was Knox Class, commissioned 17 Feb 1973. Decommissioned 27 July 1994.
- Wenatchee Washington and surrounding mountains doubled for Korea during flying scenes.
- The leather G-2 flight jacket was not allowed to be worn off base.
- Second film based on naval aviation featuring Glen Powell released in 2022, following Top Gun: Maverick (2022).
- For the dog fight scenes, director J.D. Dillard hired Kevin LaRosa, who oversaw and designed the flight sequences for Top Gun: Maverick (2022).
- Glen Powell also worked with Joe Jonas’ younger brother, Nick on Scream Queens
- Unlike Glen Powell’s previous naval aviation-based film Top Gun: Maverick (2022), most of the flying scenes in this movie were done using CGI, as the jets featured in the film are decommissioned.
- Jonathan Majors and Serinda Swan have both appeared in the Marvel Cinematic Universe, with Majors playing Kang the Conqueror in Loki (2021) and Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantamania (2023) and Swan playing Medusa in the Marvel Television series Inhumans (2017).
- The Medal of Honor that Glen Powell is wearing toward the end of the film is the actual Medal of Honor that was awarded and worn by Tom Hudner Jr.
- Chanda Dancy, a graduate of USC Thornton School of Music, composes the movie soundtrack.
- The song was released by Lakeshore Records.
- Joe Jonas and Khalid wrote and performes the duet to the end credits song called Not Alone.
- The single is not part of the soundtrack.
- Devotion is considered a box office bomb. In the United States and Canada, Devotion was released alongside Strange World and Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery, as well as the wide expansions of The Fabelmans and Bones and All, and is projected to gross around $7–8 million from 3,400 theaters over its five-day opening weekend.
- The film made $1.8 million on its first day, including $615,000 from Tuesday night previews.
- Principal photography began on February 4, 2021 in Savannah, Georgia.
- Filming also took place in Charleston, South Carolina, Wenatchee, Washington, Statesboro, Georgia, and from March 17 to April 13, 2021 at the Statesboro-Bulloch County Airport.
- Dillard was determined to create practical effects using real aircraft as much as possible, including several F4U Corsairs, an AD Skyraider, two F8F Bearcat fighters, one of the only remaining flyable HO5S-1 helicopters, and a MiG-15.
- Dillard hired aerial stunt coordinator Kevin LaRosa, who created the flight sequences for Top Gun: Maverick.
- A modified L-39 Albatros trainer was used as an air-to-air camera platform.
