Taken to their base, Tugg believes it is a POW camp from the script. The resulting argument results in Kirk leading the rest of the cast back toward the resort they are staying at as an increasingly delirious Tugg is captured by Flaming Dragon. As the actors continue through the jungle, Kirk and Kevin discover that Tugg is leading them in the wrong direction. Four Leaf is revealed to have hands he confesses to Underwood that he actually served in the Coast Guard, has never left the United States, and that he wrote his "memoir" as a tribute. When Four Leaf and pyrotechnics operator Cody Underwood try to locate the deceased director, they are captured by Flaming Dragon. Kirk is unconvinced but joins them in their trek through the jungle. Tugg, believing Damien faked his death to encourage the cast to give better performances, assures the others that Damien is alive, and that they are still shooting the film. Just as the group is about to set off, Damien inadvertently steps on an old land mine and is blown up, stunning the actors. Unknown to the actors and production, the group have been dropped in the middle of the Golden Triangle, the home of the heroin-producing Flaming Dragon gang. The actors have guns that fire blanks, along with a map and scene listing that will lead to a helicopter waiting at the end of the route. On Four Leaf's advice, Damien drops the actors into the middle of the jungle, with hidden cameras and rigged special effects explosions to film "guerrilla-style". With the project months behind schedule, studio executive Les Grossman gives Damien an ultimatum: get the cast under control or risk the project's cancellation. With the exception of newcomer supporting actor Kevin Sandusky, the cast-fading action hero Tugg Speedman, five-time Academy Award-winning Australian method actor Kirk Lazarus, rapper Alpa Chino, and drug-addicted comedian Jeff Portnoy-all cause problems for director Damien Cockburn, who cannot control them, resulting in a million-dollar pyrotechnics scene being wasted. Hook-handed Vietnam veteran Staff Sergeant John "Four Leaf" Tayback's memoir Tropic Thunder is being made into a film. The film grossed more than $188 million worldwide before its release on home media on November 18, 2008. Downey was nominated for an Academy Award, a BAFTA Award, and a Screen Actors Guild Award, with both him and Cruise receiving nominations for a Golden Globe Award. In its North American opening weekend, the film earned $26 million and retained the number one position for the first three weekends of release. Paramount Pictures and DreamWorks released the film in the US on August 13, 2008. The film's soundtrack and score debuted on August 5, 2008, before the film's theatrical release. However, the film's depiction of the mentally handicapped received significant controversy. The film received generally positive reviews, with critics praising the film's characters, story, faux trailers, and the performances of Stiller, Downey, Black and Cruise. The film had an extensive marketing promotion, including faux websites for the three main characters and their fictional films, airing a fictional television special, and selling the energy drink advertised in the film, "Booty Sweat". After the film was green-lit in 2006, filming took place in 2007 on the Hawaiian island of Kaua'i over thirteen weeks and was later deemed the largest film production in the island's history. Stiller's idea for the film originated while playing a minor role in Empire of the Sun, and he later enlisted Theroux and Cohen to help complete the script.
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The film was produced by Stuart Cornfeld, Stiller, and Eric McLeod for Red Hour Productions and DreamWorks Pictures as an international co-production between the United States, Germany and the United Kingdom. The screenplay was written by Justin Theroux, Stiller, and Etan Cohen from a story by Stiller and Theroux. The film features an ensemble cast that includes Tom Cruise, Nick Nolte, Matthew McConaughey and Bill Hader.
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It is a parody of many famous war films, specifically those based on the Vietnam War. When their frustrated director (played by Steve Coogan) drops them in the middle of a jungle, they are forced to rely on their acting skills to survive the real action and danger.
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Jackson as a group of prima donna actors making a Vietnam War film. It stars Stiller, Jack Black, Robert Downey Jr., Jay Baruchel, and Brandon T. Production Tropic Thunder is a 2008 satirical action comedy film directed by Ben Stiller.