For all of his obvious
skills and uncommon talent as a
visual storyteller, Kosinski's first two films were short on character depth and emotional engagement, but whether a function of Kosinski's
innate preferences for spectacle over substance or simply script - related issues, Kosinski's feature - film output made him an odd, left - of - field choice to direct a film about American firefighters and the Yarnell Hill Fire of 2013 that resulted in the greatest loss of firefighters since 9 - 11 more than a decade earlier.