Guy Ritchie's war drama The Covenant certainly feels like the retelling of a true story, but is it based in real life?
The Big Picture Guy Ritchie's The Covenant tells the emotional story of the relationship between a United States soldier and an Afghan interpreter who become unlikely allies and over the course of the film and are inexorably tied by the horrors of the conflict in The Middle Eastern war. The movie is set in 2018, just a few years before the American withdrawal from Afghanistan that saw the Taliban take control of the country and establish a new, iron-fisted regime.
Is 'The Covenant' Based On a True Story? After digging around, there is no evidence to suggest that the events in The Covenant are based on a true story or the lives of Master Sgt. John Kinley and Ahmed Abdullah. The story, which tellls of an Afghan translator who earns the trust of his American unit and ends up saving Kinley's life only to see Kinley fly back to Afghanistan and get him and his wife out of the Taliban-ruled country, is not based on any real-life account.
What Sources Did Guy Ritchie Pull From For 'The Covenant'? According to the acclaimed director, he took bits and pieces of stories he had heard about the over 20-year American occupation of Afghanistan to create the story of Kinley and Ahmed, saying The Covenant is, "an amalgam of different stories from Afghanistan and Iraq, both English and American.
If you've seen the film, he is absolutely spot on in his references to honoring a "contract" or promise, hence the title, The Covenant. The beauty of the film is the bond between two men who are not just American and Afghan, but human beings who both go above and beyond to save each other's lives. So even though there is no Sergeant Major John Kinley or an Afghan interpreter/translator named Ahmed Abdullah who saves each other's lives, the story that is told has all the elements of real human emotions and the things that inspire us as an audience and was worthy of checking out for ourselves.
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