The production takes advantage of Saudi Film Commission's 40% cash rebate. Nina Toussaint-White and Bahador Foladi joined the cast later that same month. feature to shoot in the country's Al-Ula and Jeddah. This made the film the first big-budget U.S. Majority of filming commenced on Decemin Saudi Arabia. Īli Fazal and Navid Negahban joined the cast in December 2021. In June 2020, it was announced Gerard Butler would produce and star in the film, which had been retitled Kandahar, reteaming with Angel Has Fallen and Greenland director Ric Roman Waugh. He based it on his experiences working for the Defense Intelligence Agency and being deployed to Afghanistan in 2013 during the Snowden leaks. In June 2016, former military intelligence officer Mitchell LaFortune sold his spec script Burn Run to Thunder Road Films. The British journalist is released while Tom and Mo reunite with their families. This enables Tom and Mo to escape on a British military cargo plane. However, a CIA director orders an unauthorized missile strike on the remaining Taliban pursuers. After the Talibans knocked their car, Tom fights Kahil and severely wounds him. Roman is mortally wounded, and jumps from the vehicle to buy the rest time. Speculating that Tom will use an old CIA airbase to extract, Kahil organizes another Taliban unit to intercept Tom.Īs Tom, Roman, and Mo reach the extraction point, Kahil attacks their vehicle. Roman, Tom, and Mo escape by vehicle from the compound while the battle continues. Kahil arrives at the scene of the battle and he realizes the attackers' ruse paid by the CIA. Roman and the commando fighters attack the compound where Tom and Mo are held captive. Tom concludes his warlord friend sold him out. Tom and Mo are captured by a Taliban warlord paid by Kahil. Meanwhile, Roman stops communicating with the CIA and arrives in Afghanistan to join the Afghan SF Commandos masquerading as ISIS-K unit. Despite angering the warlord, he provides Tom and Mo with a vehicle and they depart the warlord’s camp. Mo reveals to Tom and the warlord that the warlord killed Mo’s son years ago. Now on foot, Tom and Mo seek aid from Tom’s friend, an Afghan warlord not associated with the governing Taliban. Tom destroys the helicopter and kills Farzad and its crew. Tom and Mo are chased by Farzad and ISI agent Kahil Nassir but they elude both pursuing parties and escape to the desert.Įn route to Kandahar, Tom and Mo are attacked by Farzad in a helicopter. Farzad and Pakistani security services learn Tom is in Herat, and each sends operatives to apprehend him, with Pakistan wanting to ransom Tom to the highest bidder. Roman directs Tom and his Afghan-American translator Mohammad “Mo” Doud to an extraction point in Kandahar. With his cover now blown, the mission in Herat is aborted. Tom accepts Roman’s lucrative CIA contract for a job in Herat, Afghanistan, because it will pay enough to cover his daughter’s medical university expenses.Īfter he arrives in Herat, due to an intelligence leak, the news names Tom as the operative responsible for the destruction of the nuclear facility. Roman claims to have delayed the flight to force this meeting. Roman is a Muslim convert, living under the outward pretense of a Dubai socialite, a lifestyle he secretly despises. While in Dubai, his flight to London is delayed, and he visits his CIA handler, Roman Chalmers. Tom leaves Iran en route to London via Dubai. The next day, Harris's partner in the operation, Oliver, is murdered by the Iranian Special Force after both Oliver and Harris's identity are compromised. She tells the Iranians she suspects a link between the facility’s destruction and the Swiss contractor because their contracts are next to government sites. After the facility is destroyed, she is arrested by an Iranian security agency led by Farzad. She receives evidence from a whistle blower of the CIA’s ongoing sabotage of Iran’s nuclear programs. The Iranian government has been monitoring a British journalist Luna Cujai. His mission is successful, and the malware causes the facility to self destruct, preventing the Iranians from acquiring more nuclear bombs. Tom’s cover is a field technician for a Swiss communications contractor. Tom Harris is a freelance undercover operative working for the CIA to insert malware into an Iranian nuclear research facility. The film was released in theaters on by Open Road Films. The film stars Gerard Butler (who is also a producer) and features a supporting cast that includes Ali Fazal, Navid Negahban, Bahador Foladi, Nina Toussaint-White, Tom Rhys Harries, Vassilis Koukalani, Mark Arnold, Corey Johnson, and Travis Fimmel, and follows the CIA operative and his translator who flee from Afghanistan after his covert mission were exposed. Kandahar, titled Mission Kandahar in Canada, is a 2023 American action film directed by Ric Roman Waugh and written by Mitchell LaFortune.
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