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First Set Images from Peter Berg’s Lone Survivor

First Set Images from Peter Berg’s Lone Survivor

Nix November 30, 2012

It looks like Peter Berg’s passion project “Lone Survivor” is up and running, with the film’s cast of Eric Bana, Emile Hirsch, and Mark Wahlberg gathering, beards and all, on the New Mexico set,...

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Peter Berg’s Lone Survivor Recruits Eric Bana

Peter Berg’s Lone Survivor Recruits Eric Bana

Nix August 13, 2012

This couldn’t come at a better time. I just got watching a French war movie called “Special Forces” (that review is coming with another special edition of Encapsulated Cinema), which reminded me that I...

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Lone Survivor Recruits Emile Hirsch

Lone Survivor Recruits Emile Hirsch

Nix July 23, 2012

Looks like director Peter Berg has located the fourth member of his 4-men SEAL team for his upcoming Afghanistan War-set movie “Lone Survivor”, a film that he’s been trying to get made for years...

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Peter Berg’s Lone Survivor Recruits Wahlberg, Foster, and Kitsch

Peter Berg’s Lone Survivor Recruits Wahlberg, Foster, and Kitsch

Nix February 28, 2012

With “Battleship”, Peter Berg’s sci-fi Summer event film for Universal close to disembarking for its defense against an alien invasion, Berg is already moving ahead with his follow-up film, the Navy SEALs movie “Lone...

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Peter Berg’s Lone Survivor is a Go Thanks to Bin Laden

Peter Berg’s Lone Survivor is a Go Thanks to Bin Laden

Nix May 17, 2011

For a while there, it didn’t seem as if Universal would ever give Peter Berg the money he needed to make “Lone Survivor”, based on the real-life book of the same name by former...

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Mactavish Pictures Options SEAL of Honor Book

Mactavish Pictures Options SEAL of Honor Book

Nix May 11, 2010

If the name Michael P. Murphy rings a bell, that’s because Peter Berg has been trying to get a movie that involves Murphy called “Lone Survivor” made for a while now, and from all...

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Peter Berg Puts Lone Survivor on Hold to Sink My Battleship

Peter Berg Puts Lone Survivor on Hold to Sink My Battleship

Nix December 2, 2009

For a while there, Peter Berg had his eye on adapting the book “Lone Survivor”, based on the true story of former Navy SEALs Marcus Luttrell. But it now appears as if “Lone Survivor”...

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Peter Berg to Sink Your Battleship, Sets Up Lone Survivor

Peter Berg to Sink Your Battleship, Sets Up Lone Survivor

Nix September 15, 2009

Let’s face it, the “Battleship” movie that Peter Berg has just been announced as directing for a 2011 release date ain’t gonna be all that much like the game. For one, it’s a low-tech...

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Peter Berg to Write and Direct Lone Survivor

Peter Berg to Write and Direct Lone Survivor

Nix August 21, 2007

It looks like Marcus Luttrell’s true-story book “Lone Survivor: The Eyewitness Account of Operation Redwing and the Lost Heroes of SEAL Team 10″ is going to make it as a movie after all —...

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Hollywood Hot for Patriotic War Book

Hollywood Hot for Patriotic War Book

Nix August 17, 2007

Say what? Hollywood wants to make a movie from a book that doesn’t call George Bush a Nazi or posit America’s ill-conceived foreign policy? Oh hell no! Is that even possible in Today’s Hollywood?...

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