How Navy SEAL Author Jack Carr Got Chris Pratt’s Attention

the Joe Rogan experience so you have this plan to turn this into some sort of a series from the time you release the very first book yeah from before that and so what's crazy is that as I'm writing this now they tell you not to think of someone playing your character as you're writing but as a child of the 80s that's almost impossible not to do so as I'm writing the crazy part is like usually you think of like Mark Wahlberg you think of somebody that had done these sort of things kind of before but I thought it Chris Pratt and he had just done he all he'd done it's Parks and Rec and he done had a small role in zero dark thirty where he plays a seal he has like a couple lines in there and for some reason like that's the guy really I had no connection to him and no it wouldn't been an obvious choice back then this is 20 so I've start writing in December of 2014 I think her early 2015 somewhere there so so he wasn't his giant movie star back there hadn't done any of that stuff yet and I thought you know what this is a likable guy and he seems like an awesome dude I'm getting a good feeling from him and I thought you know growing up in the 80s I love Magnum he started off as a naval intelligence officer and then they found out about seals the writers they turned him into a seal a couple seasons into it and like everybody loved Magnum in the 80s women liked him the guys like to him you know nothing not to like about Magnum and he also does the first essentially what you would call a murder on national television with the other person not having a firearm or a weapon and it's the end of I think it's season season 3 but the guy a guy that had him as a powa and Vietnam comes to Hawaii there's a little conspiracy thing involved and at the end he thinks he's walking away and Magnum asked him if he's seen the Sun Rise that morning because that morning when his friend his friend gets killed there's a sunrise and the guy turns around he's like yes why and the magnet turns around and boom and they stop it right there with this like fireball coming out of the end of his 1911 and they freeze it right there and it was the first time on television in that primetime hour where someone had killed somebody else the hero had killed someone else who wasn't armed I forgot about that very remembering it now there it was very controversial yeah yeah and it so I thought that's who I need I need somebody who's a likeable guy who's gonna invest in this and I heard he was like pro-military and that sort of thing and and because perhaps the guy and that's all that's all the thought I gave to he couldn't have picked a better job so awesome and I get who knew he was gonna turn into with Jurassic Park and he hadn't passengers he hadn't anything serious yet but I also thought about because I've been studying this in something my whole life and I thought about in the 80s look what Tom Hanks did in the 80s you know he's in booze and buddies he's in dragnet he's in the burbs he's in jail versus the volcano and then he does something called Philadelphia in the early 90s and he takes that risk and since then he's been able to write his own ticket he's one of the greatest actors of his generation and I thought who is that guy in this generation that needs to stretch a little bit that needs to do something different and I'm like that's that's Chris Pratt he can do this and so I thought it and then even crazier before the first book came out I'm at Thunder ranch training doing some shooting stuff up there in Oregon and I get this call from a guy that I knew in the SEAL Teams and he's like hey bro do you remember me and you know you know Jared and I he was out there and Utah with us and he said hey bro you remember me I'm like yeah of course I remember you how's it going and talk to him in five years or something and we catch up a little bit and he's like hey you know I was wondering thank you for leaving the SEAL Teams I don't know if you're member but you've had me in your office you sat me down he talked about transition you introduced me some people in the private sector and I've never forgotten it I was like oh wow hey of course I'm gonna do that for you because I mean he's awesome too total stud great operator and wants to get out of the team so I'm I try to help him as best I can but he really remembered it and he said hey I heard you wrote a book I said yeah that's coming out in a couple months here they're these galley copy things which are early copies of a novel I can send one to you I'd love to send it and he said yeah I'd love it that'd be great but I'd like to give one to a friend of mine and I said yeah no problem who's that he said Chris Pratt it's like no way Wow yeah so he gives us Chris Chris reads it and next thing you know he's optioned it before it even comes out are you a guy who believes in fate do believe in destiny so when I was in Ramadi in 2005-2006 that's where I got to think about this a little bit because every time you left the wire anything could have been an iud and you could have either spent that time on the way to target and coming back from target worried about oh is that is that dead donkey on the side is that gonna blow up and kill me or kill that hit that Humvee in front of me that piece of trash right there is that covering something else is that it is our wire there you could spend every single mission especially you want to and from Target and even on target worried about that or you could focus on the mission focus on the job get there do the job get back and at that time I was like you know you know I think I have to resign myself to fate here and a lot of these things otherwise my mind is going to be focused not where it needs to be but on is that 90 is that naughty and so I thought all right you know I if I get blown up today that's just that's just outlet everything everything we possibly can to mitigate that but you know it could happen and I'm not going to spend an inordinate amount of bandwidth worried about that other than trying to mitigate it as best we possibly can but that's not going to be the focus of my everything that I'm thinking about it can't be I need to be focused on this mission I need to focus on contingencies there's a firefight I need to figure out what assets are available to come in here for QRF or whatever else what here we have overhead how do we how do we maneuver here all those things like that's what I need to worry what's a QR quick reaction force so you have those set up at different places in case you get hit so they can come on in usually in like Bradley's or Abrams sometimes different vehicles and have a little more firepower than you do as you're sneaking through the streets so we're kind of resign myself to fate and there's a book called the bridge at San Liu array and there's like I forget how many people they'll say five or six people that are on this bridge and it collapses and the story is how each one of them got to be on that bridge why were those six people the ones that were on that bridge at that time and its fate so so I guess and I'm really thought about it too much since then other than that experience in in Iraq and just having to feeling like I had to resign myself to it sprat thing is here we go it's crazy it's a little earrings I mean wonderfully eerie no eerie maybe the worst word was pretty amazing I feel very fortunate yeah and yeah it's one of those things that you kind of maybe made that happen like maybe you kind of put that out there well as you were writing it thinking about him maybe I don't know I say that I said shut up hippie it's like Oh what do you got a crystal up your ass too you know but that yeah no I hadn't if I hadn't if I was like no I don't know I mean I was you know whatever an average CEO or whatever but if I you know hadn't taken the time to sit down with Jared and like maybe Chris doesn't even know this exists today right and other crazy part of this I thought of Anton Fuqua directing it really directing it yeah why why why him because I love you training day he did training day I got the Oscar for her training day Magnificent Seven I knew he'd worked with Chris on on Magnificent Seven I actually did know someone who knew him but so I so I did have that connection through someone someone else but I loved shooter which is based on the book point of impact by Stephen hunter with Mark Wahlberg I love that movie because I could I loved the book so much they made it more modern for today's time but it's a Vietnam sniper is Bob Lee swagger those who it originally is but I just thought he's the guy he's the guy to direct this thing and now they're both doing it was crazy that is crazy yeah that's so weird man that you had those two people in your head like that's what makes me think I don't I don't not believe that it's possible to manifest something but I think most of the people that talk about that stuff are full of [ __ ] yeah that's where it's a problem like most of the people that talk about that stuff they're trying to sell you something that well you know you can make your life happen and you just need a dream board and write all those things down there's a lot of that stuff is horseshit because you got to do the work right that's it but part of me thinks that if you do do the work and you do have that focus and that intensity I feel like there might be some sort of frequency that you can tap in where you make things more likely to happen or possibly you can make things happen but the thing is you know like you only hear those stories from the people that are successful like how many people like Chris Pratt in my head right now I said Chris yeah and he's like get the [ __ ] away from me you know it's totally crazy how all that how all that stuff kind of comes to comes together you couldn't have picked a better guy than Chris he is such a good guy he's such a great guy he's almost weird weirdly nice ya know he's so nice maybe it's just different for around here maybe I but he's very different in terms of like Hollywood actors like there's a few like him like you know it's like people love to say that actors are full of [ __ ] they're gross and they're self-centered in our system yeah it's true a lot of that is it really but it's not true all the time yeah and Chris is a great example of a guy who's like he's a very religious guy very pro-military very he's a really positive guy very very very friendly guy he's not your typical actor yeah also a huge movie star so it's weird it's like he's not that you know guy who does coke and goes to parties and he's a different different animal yes they're they do exist male and female there's there are actresses that are great people they just they just really genuinely enjoy acting but for the most part the people that get into it are people that need a disproportionate amount of attention and for the most part the people that need a disproportionate amount of tension are disproportionately annoying you know yeah and usually they like to get rid of the author right away when you option something cuz I want to get rid of that guy because he's gonna be on set he's gonna be like that's not my vision you're ruining my book or whatever so I'd like to get rid of but Chris wanted me involved so I got to help out on the pilot script that's this thing that's awesome he's so good now is this a Netflix things that we're doing it's still classified okay they're doing some some announcement at some point but it's a streaming service oh that's right okay I know what it is yeah third series maybe something like that eight to ten parts per yeah because if they tried to jam that well you don't have to anymore yeah it's great people like how it looks genius right yes especially now yeah another crazy fate thing is because when you were doing that like when you were writing that in 2016 the streaming thing wasn't what it is today right and well even when we did the deal it was like movie was kind of like that that it was early twenty twenty eighteen when we did the deal and it's like well serious or movie so it's both it could be both in the contract and now and then they decided to do the series earlier on before kovat even was on the radar but now it looks like yeah genius move [Applause]

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Published: Thu Apr 30 2020