Michael Mann's protégé Peter Berg has become a major director in Hollywood on the back of helming one of the best sports movies ever made (Friday Night Lights) and one of the biggest hits of 2008 (Hancock).
The sometime actor (he appeared in Collateral and TV show Chicago Hope) is currently in post production on the blockbuster, Battleship and has now signed on to direct another military centric flick, Lone Survivor. The film will be an adaptation of the book by Marcus Luttrell, which chronicles how he and other members of his Navy Seal team survived after being ambushed by opposing forces in Afghanistan. Berg told Deadline, "They leaned right into it with me," before adding "Bin Laden's death has cleared the way for this, a movie that will be an unapologetically patriotic film that honours and pays homage to an incredible group of badass guys who do this. The film will be a bit like Black Hawk Down, but it will focus on the quartet, which is fewer guys than that film.
Unapologetically patriotic, Pete? So, just like Battle: Los Angeles and most other war films over the past 7 years. Still, the man knows action so I wanna see this.