In the heart-pounding military thriller VALIANT ONE, a routine mission spirals into a fight for survival when a US Army helicopter crashes deep within North Korean territory. With their communications equipment destroyed, Captain Edward Brockman (Chase Stokes) and Specialist Selby (Lana Condor) must lead the team through hostile terrain, cut off from US military support as they attempt a daring escape across the treacherous Demilitarized Zone.
A small Army team in present-day Korea is unexpectedly under the command of a soldier fighting extraordinary circumstances in director Steve Barnett’s dramatic military thriller VALIANT ONE. Sgt. Brockman (CHASE STOKES, TV’s Outer Banks) and three corporals based at Camp Humphreys in Pyeongtaek, South Korea, are ordered to escort a civilian defense contractor to the North Korean border for a routine assignment to fix surveillance tech. When extreme weather pushes their helicopter past the Demilitarized Zone and they crash in North Korea — mortally wounding their commanding officer (CALLAN MULVEY, The Gray Man, Avengers: Endgame), and with rescue forces unavailable — Brockman, who says he’s “just trained to analyze data,” must make sure he and his fellow solders Selby (LANA CONDOR, To All the Boys I’ve Loved Before, Alita: Battle Angel), Lee (DANIEL JUN, TV’s The Expanse), and Ross JONATHAN WHITESELL (TV’S Riverdale), and the tech specialist Weaver (DESMIN BORGES, TV’s Only Murders in the Building) survive long enough to get out of enemy territory. Unsure of when they’ll be spotted by the North Korean military, Brockman must use his instincts and inner grit to locate a series of tunnels to provide their only way to escape. As he finds a way through the jungle terrain, and his squad encounters people and situations they never anticipated, Brockman also finds his own way to bravery, camaraderie, and leadership, proving that many times, heroes aren’t born…they’re made.
