The real Megan Leavey and Rex Leavey’s brave story proved irresistible to the producers. Senator Schumer then assists Megan in the biggest fight of her life: to give Rex a loving home. Encouraged by her father Bob (Bradley Whitford), Megan starts a campaign to raise awareness of her goal to adopt Rex, which gains the attention of Senator Chuck Schumer. She returns to civilian life with a Purple Heart and a new mission: to reunite with her canine partner, officially classified as “unadoptable” because of his combat-induced trauma. Megan suffers ruptured eardrums and memory loss, but most of all, she’s devastated by the fact that Rex is no longer by her side. In the ensuing firefight, Rex helps protect the troops risking his life multiple times so Megan can be taken by helicopter for emergency medical treatment. During their second deployment in 2006, enemy forces outside Ramadi detonate a remote-controlled land mine that injures Megan and Rex in battle. Putting her life at risk as one of the first women to operate in an active combat zone in Fallujah and Ramadi, Leavey completes more than 100 missions with Rex, who sniffs out a massive cache of weapons hidden in a terrorist’s home and detects numerous roadside bombs. Megan and Rex are deployed to Iraq, where she learns the ropes from fellow dog handler Matt Morales (Ramón Rodríguez). Mentored by the gruff Sergeant Gunny Martin (Common), Megan gradually gains Rex’s trust and forges a bond of uncommon depth. She joins the K9 division and is assigned to take on an unruly German shepherd named Rex. While cleaning up kennels for the K9 unit as punishment for a night of misbehavior, Megan becomes fascinated with the “working dogs” trained to sniff out explosives in war zones. After completing boot camp, Megan attends military police school at Camp Pendleton in San Diego. Twenty-year old Megan Leavey (Kate Mara), aimless and unhappy, leaves her home and mother Jackie (Edie Falco) in upstate New York in 2003 to join the Marines. “It was incredible to see the war from a female Marine’s perspective.This took place during a time when women soldiers couldn’t be on the frontlines and here’s Megan, who’s able to go in front of the frontlines because she belongs to the K9 division.” “We cried in our conference room,” recalls producer Jennifer Monroe. Megan Leavey, the movie, began on the day that Megan Leavey, the person, walked into LD Entertainment production offices and told her remarkable story. Based on the true story of two war veterans,Megan Leavey celebrates the unbreakable connection between a brave Marine and her best friend.
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